Table of Contents
I Why This? 1
In which the author explains why he's bothering-once again-to examine why half of America doesn't talk to the other half and why neither side changes its opinion about anything almost ever.
II What the Least Great Generation Hath Wrought 5
Why the author's generation, those born during and just before World War II, like John Lennon, Gloria Steinem, and imitators like Bill Clinton (not the boomers), are responsible for just about everything that has gone wrong with our culture and are the original, postwar "moral narcissists."
III Qu'est-ce Que C'est "Moral Narcissism"? 11
What exactly is this form of narcissism that is destroying-if it hasn't already destroyed-our families, friendships, workplace atmosphere, and democratic republic?
IV Who Was the King of All Moral Narcissists? 15
Jeopardy question: "bearded writers." He wrote his most famous works in the library of the British Museum.
V Good versus Bad Narcissism: Henrik Ibsen versus Jonathan Gruber 21
Which works better and will last longer-A Doll's House or Obamacare?
VI The Weather 25
Grandmother always said, "In polite society, when you don't know people, just talk about something neutral, like the weather." That was then, this is now.
VII For the Birds 35
Rachel Carson and how "environmentalism" came to replace Christianity, Judaism, and even Hare Krishna (well, not so much) as our new religion.
VIII Wonderful Copenhagen 39
What I discovered to be the true motivations behind the snowbound UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
IX Nostalgia for Racism 49
How and why moral narcissism helped bring back racism and the disastrous racial violence across America at the very time it was starting to diminish.
X Booker T. Washington Really Did Know Best 67
The great African American educator knew long ago that the Sharptons of the world were the real racists.
XI Selfies from Raqqa 73
How moral narcissists fight the War on Terror to lose.
XII Islam Denialism 81
If you think all religions are equal, you can skip this chapter.
XIII The Moral Narcissist Sleep Room 89
Oh, les beaux jours when we were all at the barricades, pulling up the pavement in Paris!
XIV Nostalgia for Marxism 101
"I want a revolution where everyone can drink cappuccino at the Café Royal."-Daniel Cohn-Bendit of the Nanterre Six, during the Paris "events" of May 1968.
XV Luxurious Leftism 109
The irresistible rise of the "red bourgeoisie"
XVI Anatomy of the American Nomemklatura 119
And why it's stronger and more pervasive than even the Soviet original.
XVII The Media Is the (Moral Narcissist's) Message 127
Who is really raping whom?
XVIII Nostalgia for Class Consciousness 145
Nostalgia for Marxism's junior partner.
XIX Bang! Bang! You're Not Dead! 153
How I learned to love the Second Amendment by outliving my mother.
XX Narcissus in the Time of Atheism 157
Our society has a gaping hole.
XXI The Mother's Milk of Moral Narcissism 161
Alternative title "The Soros and the Pity" (with apologies to Marcel Ophüls).
XXII Unwinding-The Merry Month of May 2015 171
Moral narcissism reaches its height in that 2015 month…until the next one.
XXIII Change 181
How do we get out of this? And can we?
XXIV The Devil in Disguise 185
Seeing the devil in morally narcissistic clothes.
XXV Envoi: Confessions of a Libertarian Neocon 191
Living an oxymoron.
Acknowledgments (actually a dedication in the back) 193
Notes 195
Index 201
