Table of Contents

A Portrait in Contrast –  iii

The Democracy America Never Was
What a Country! – 3
Nation or Economy? – 13
We the People – 31

Only in America
Politics in Red and Blue – 49
The Right to Media-ocracy – 75
No Business Like Law – 96
Will Harvard Go Bankrupt? – 120

A Crisis Like None Before
Nobody Is Born Stupid – 149
Production (and Reproduction) of Stupidity – 167
Learning to Live with Huge Numbers – 182
The Empire Strikes Back: We Create Our Own Reality – 198
Why China Won’t Buy the USA – 217
A Tale of Two Superpowers – 235

A Second American Revolution. The Need for a Constitutional Convention
Nobody Can Un-Ring the Bells – 273
By The People, For The People – 283
“An America Worth Having” – 296

Acknowledgments – 323

Bibliography – 325-365