Pre-preface: As we go to press . . . -- Preface: Manifesto for extreme moderation -- Introduction: O beautiful for . . . Pilgrim feet? -- One nation-divided as hell -- Coastals vs. Heartlanders -- Goodbye to classical liberalism : "It's the end of the world!" -- Big fat politics -- But thank you anyway, partisan politicians -- Robin Hood arithmetic -- On the other hand . . . : just give them the money -- It's time to make rich people : uncomfortable again -- Negative rights vs. Positive rights : it's positively confusing -- Sympathy vs. empathy : is it better to hold people's hands or bust into their heads? -- Patriotism vs. nationalism -- Big brother (and everybody else) is watching you : thoughts on rereading 1984 -- Whose bright idea was it to make sure : that every idiot in the world was in touch with every other idiot? -- A brief historical digression on how communication has devolved -- And while I'm ranting against the digital age, let me not forget to excoriate an aspect of social media that lacks even sociability . . . On the fresh hell of the Internet of Things -- Lessons in fake news from two old masters of the form -- Woke to the sound of laughter -- Why kids r commies and never mind how the free market bankrupted that backwards r big box store that once held a greedy monopoly on selling toys -- Knowing write from left -- Educating my kids -- My own lousy education and how it may be of aid to the nation -- What we can learn from the sixties drug culture -- Can the government be run like a business? -- Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate . . . The electoral college! -- Is a reasonable, sensible, moderate foreign policy even possible? -- The inaugural address I'd like to hear the president-whoever it may be-deliver -- My own personal fantasy league : presidential election -- A license to drive (me crazy) -- The founding fathers have some words with us -- What I like about U.(S.A.).