Contents
Introduction
Chapter I Education
How useful was high school?
Vouchers
How useful was college?
Far Left and Far Right
Beware of Idealism
Chapter II Oh, to save the world
A Baptism by fire
Living in Slums
Domestic Version of Peace Corps
B Reflections
Social Work in the Past
How Not to Study a Gang Banger
Liberal Psychobabble
Social Work Myths
Welfare Reform
The Homeless
Hazlitt on Poverty
Why Immigrants Pass our Poor
Advice to the Poor
C Independence
How to Kill a Care Home
A Suicidal Friend
Neighborhood Care Homes
Chapter III Land lording
A Bad Neighborhood
Living with Bums
Legal Nightmare over Rented Room
Chapter IV The light goes on
A Liberal pitfalls
Liberal Myths
The Liberal Media
Social Classes and Liberals
Liberal Spin on Riots
B Economics
Discovering Milton Friedman
Discovering Thomas Sowell
What the Free Market Wants
Minimum Wage
Privatization
C Values
The Decline
Self-pity
Appendix
Liberal and conservative positions
Traditional Values
People, places, publications, think tanks
Author’s bio