The view from flyover country : dispatches from the forgotten America
by Kendzior, Sarah (Author)
Summary
Offers a collection of essays on the state of America, including how labor exploitation, racism, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of a post-employment economy have given rise to an autocrat leader. Full description
- Part I: Flyover country.
- The view from flyover country ;
- Expensive cities are killing creativity ;
- The peril of hipster economics ;
- Mourn the fall of the mall
- Part II: The post-employment economy.
- Surviving the post-employment economy ;
- Meritocracy for sale ;
- Survival is not an aspiration ;
- Zero-opportunity employers ;
- A government shutdown, a social breakdown ;
- The men who set themselves free ;
- Charity is not a substitute for justice ;
- The unaffordable baby boomer dream ;
- The millennial parent ;
- Mothers are not "opting out"
- they are out of options
- Part III: Race and religion.
- The wrong kind of caucasian ;
- The fallacy of the phrase "the Muslim world" ;
- In the trial of Trayvon, the U.S. is guilty ;
- St. Louis's sons, taken too soon ;
- The freedom to criticize free speech
- Part IV: Higher education.
- The closing of American academia ;
- Academic paywalls mean publish and perish ;
- The political consequences of academic paywalls ;
- The immorality of college admissions ;
- College is a promise the economy does not keep
- Part V: Media.
- Managed expectations in the post-employment economy ;
- Who is a "journalist"? People who can afford to be ;
- Blame it on the internet ;
- When the mainstream media are the lunatic fringe
- Part VI: Beyond flyover country.
- U.S. foreign policy's gender gap ;
- Snowden and the paranoid state ;
- Iraq and the reinvention of reality ;
- Where following the law is radical ;
- Water is a human right, but who is considered a human being? ;
- The telegenically dead
- Coda. In defense of complaining
- Epilogue.