With a Happy Eye But...: America and the World, 1997--2002 Book

	Introduction	1
	To the "Gallant Girls" (Just Kidding) of National Cathedral School	9
	Chicks with Sticks	13
	Marines, Rough and Polished	15
	A Summons to Gratitude	17
	In Praise of Fierce Patriotism	19
	The Unabomber and American Squeamishness	21
	The Unabomber's Sanity	23
	The Black-Lung Disease of the Intelligentsia	24
	Minibars and Family Values in Vegas	27
	The Anthropology of Latte Towns	28
	Et Tu, Brooks Brothers?	30
	Secrecy and the Mother of Stupidity	32
	The Triumph of "Perceptions"	34
	Rodney King Revisited	36
	Victimhood as an Equal Opportunity Condition	39
	The Census and Tiger Woods	40
	Making Uniforms into Billboards	42
	Oh, Swell. New York Wins Again	44
	Nykesha Sales Misses the Point	46
	1951 Diminished	48
	Fifty-one Two-Bit Solutions	50
	Santa and His 214,200 Reindeer	52
	NASA and the Meaning, if Any, of Life	54
	1997: Year of Living Dangerously	56
	1998: Not in Good Taste	58
	1999: Satisfactory, Sort of	60
	2000: The Most Interesting Year of the Millennium, So Far	62
	2001: Ring the Bells Backward	64
	War Beyond the World of Westphalia	69
	The Relevance of General Sherman	71
	The Healthy Aspect of War	73
	Next, Weapons of Mass Disruption?	74
	Scary Scenarios from a Decorous Cassandra	77
	Arms Control by F-16	79
	The End Human Nature, Not History	81
	New Consequences for Old Ideas	83
	Disintegration	85
	Language and the Logic of Events	87
	Kosovo and America's Identity	88
	Russia's Long Crawl Up from Communism	90
	Italy's Fifty-ninth Postwar Try	92
	Cheddar Man and the Abolition of Britain	94
	The European Union's Lawlessness	96
	Denmark and Goliath	98
	The Currency of Cultural Blandness	100
	The Rape of Nanking Remembered	102
	Arafat, Castro, and the Liberal Mind	104
	The Hijacking of the Holocaust	106
	Germany: Unending Self-Examination	108
	July 10, 1941, in Jedwabne	110
	Israel at Fifty	112
	"Do Not Iron Clothes on Body"	117
	Microgovernment and the Law of Litigation	119
	Hate Crimes: The Criminal Law as Moral Pork Barrel	121
	Punishing States of Mind	123
	"Bigotry" and the Boy Scouts	124
	Privacy and the Boy Scouts	126
	The Privacy of the Unencumbered Self	128
	Prison, Procreation, and FedEx	130
	Stem Cells and Human Flourishing	132
	Peter Singer Comes to Princeton	134
	The Right to a Dead Baby	138
	Infanticide: Ho-Hum	140
	A Sacrament in the Church of "Choice"	142
	Fetuses and Carolinians	144
	Protecting Viewers from Something "A Little Too Vivid"	146
	Solemnity at Texas High School Football Games	148
	Coping with the - Well, Some of the - Ten Commandments	150
	Censoring Zachary	152
	Good News for Zachary	154
	School Choice and the "Hecklers' Veto"	156
	The Supreme Court and the "Essence" of Golf	158
	Worrying Rationally	163
	Increasing Speed - and Safety: A Cautionary Tale	164
	What Did We Know, and When Did We Know It, About Smoking?	166
	Supersized Americans	168
	Boys Will Be Boys. So Drug Them	170
	The Mask of Masculinity	172
	Rethinking Puberty, and High School	174
	The Death of School Discipline	176
	Disorder on Campus	178
	Education and the 9/91 Factor	180
	Multiplying Knowledge at Monterey Bay	182
	"Barkis Is Willin'": An Address at Princeton's Sesquicentennial	184
	Virtues Versus Values: Commencement Address at Lafayette College	194
	Rule by Microrules: Commencement Address at Washington University in Saint Louis	197
	"Recognition" in San Francisco	202
	Sustainable San Francisco	204
	Making America Safe - and Profitable - for Eminem	206
	Walker Percy, Richard Petty, Whatever	208
	Karen Finley's Major Tragedy	210
	History and Contingency	215
	... The Iceberg Too	216
	Neurologically Wired to Wall Street	218
	What Began with Jim Clark's Boat	220
	Capitalism Is a Government Project	222
	America's Long-Term Leveling	224
	The "Strip Mall Socialism" of Government	226
	Hillary Clinton's Insouciant Insincerity	228
	Friendship	229
	The Silence of the Law and "the Silent Artillery of Time"	231
	Closing the Lewinsky Parenthesis	233
	Sorry About That	235
	Clinton's Legacy: An Adjective	237
	A College Education	239
	435 May Be 565 Too Few	241
	What the Remorseless Improvers Have Wrought	242
	A Free-Love Nominating System	244
	FDR Pays His Taxes	246
	A Democrat Learns to Love Trickle-Down Economics	248
	Conservatism: Freedom Plus	250
	Relearning the Lessons of "the Most Important Law"	252
	A GI Bill for Mothers	254
	In Need of Another Moses	256
	Congress's "Nuremberg Defense"	258
	The Appendix of the Body Politic	260
	The Politics of Pathos	262
	Listening to Politics with a Third Ear	264
	"Let Us ... " No, Let's Not	266
	Missing Coolidge	269
	Al Sharpton's Parricide	271
	The "Latin Americanization" of Campaign Finance Law	275
	One-Third of the Senate Versus the First Amendment	277
	The McCarthyism of the "Progressives"	279
	A 100 Percent Tax on Political Speech?	281
	Congress and the "Misuse" of Political Speech	283
	A (Speech) Policeman's Lot Is Not Easy	285
	The Speech Police Find "Offending Passages"	287
	Minnesota Takes Exception to the First Amendment	289
	The Scandal the Media Are Missing	291
	Surprise!	292
	Virtue at Last! (In Ten Months)	294
	The Next Mess Reformers Will Make of the Last Mess They Have Made	297
	The Forfeiture of Princess Noor	301
	Princess Diana and the Law of Inverse Ratio Rhetoric	302
	Princess Diana, Conjurer	305
	Magic in Broad Daylight	306
	Hitler and Epistemological Optimism	308
	The "Ah!" of Avery Dulles	310
	Francis Cardinal George, Unenthralled	312
	C. S. Lewis's Cult of the Ordinary	314
	P. D. James, in Earnest	315
	Rought Rider in Green Bay	317
	Joe DiMaggio's Seamless Life	319
	Gentlemen in Spikes	321
	Don Zimmer: The Face of Baseball	323
	John Adams, Popular at Last	328
	James Madison, the Subtlest Founder	330
	Barry Goldwater, Cheerful Malcontent	332
	Robert Kennedy, Conservative?	334
	The Nutritiousness of Pat Moynihan	337
	Patrick O'Brian's Sense and Sensibility	339
	Holden Caulfield Turns Fifty	341
	Sara Jane Olson and Terrorism Chic	343
	Daniel Johnson, Without Regrets	345
	Meg Greenfield's Potent Measuredness	347
	The Columnist at Sixty	351
	Frederick L. Will's Angle of Repose	352
	Index	355