Recessional : the death of free speech and the cost of a free lunch /
Exposing how oppressive cultural codes--encapsulated in buzzwords such as inclusion, diversity, social justice, appropriation--are constricting the vibrant intellectual life of the world's freest country, a renowned author and playwright examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebell...
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New York :
Broadside Books,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The fountain pen
- Cause and effect
- Reds, pinks, and Goo-Goos
- What's in a name
- Pippa passes
- King Kong
- Some (mainly) musical revelations
- Two hangings
- Various discoveries
- Farther along; or, The accident chain
- On the passivity of Jews
- Bruno Bettelheim and the broke-down cowboy: two American stories
- Attention must be paid
- Experts and oligarchs
- Slave lessons
- Belinda Raguesto returns from Switzerland
- Hamlet and Oedipus meet the zombies
- A message from Schpershevski
- Chelm; or, No arrest for the wicked
- Some linguistic curiosities
- The Nazis got your mom
- Demotic, a confession
- Grief and wisdom
- Time travel
- Moby Dick
- Real live
- Rainy day fun for shut-ins: Xmas 2020
- Give my regrets to Broadway
- Broadway
- Gags
- Humility
- Max the hamster
- Disons le mot
- Art, time, and the madness of the old
- Tug-of-peace
- The awl through the ear
- Goodnight, Irene
- Recessional.