Includes index (p. 523-548).

Introduction -- Here comes the groom (August 27, 1989 / The New Republic) -- Two Faces of Bensonhurst (July 1, 1990 / The New Republic) -- Gay Life, Gay Death: The Siege of a Subculture (December 17, 1990 / The New Republic) -- Taken Unseriously (May 6, 1991 / The New Republic) -- Quilt (November 9, 1992 / The New Republic) -- Politics of Homosexuality (May 10, 1993 / The New Republic) -- Alone Again, Naturally (November 28, 1994 / The New Republic) -- When Plagues End: Notes on the Twilight of an Epidemic (November 10, 1996 / The New York Times) -- My America (November 24, 1996 / The Sunday Times) -- Princess Bride (September 21, 1997 / The New Republic) -- Unsung Heroine (September 27, 1998 / The New York Times) -- Going Down Screaming (October 11, 1998 / The New York Times) -- What's So Bad About Hate? (September 26, 1999 / The New York Times) -- He Hormone (April 2, 2000 / The New York Times Magazine) -- "Invisible Man" (January 12, 2003 / Time Magazine) -- I Am Bear; Hear Me Roar (August 3, 2003 / Salon) -- Integration Day (May 17, 2004 / The New York Times) -- Log Cabin Republican (January 12, 2005 / The Dish) -- Life Lesson (February 7, 2005 / The New Republic) -- Superstar (April 17, 2005 / The New Republic) -- Crisis of Faith (May 2, 2005 / The New Republic) -- Still Here, So Sorry (June 21, 2005 / The Advocate) -- End of Gay Culture (October 24, 2005 / The New Republic) -- Abolition of Torture (December 19, 2005 / The New Republic) -- Islamo-Bullies Get a Free Ride from the West (February 12, 2006 / The Sunday Times) -- Gay Cowboys Embraced by Redneck Country (February 26, 2006 / The Sunday Times) -- When Not Seeing Is Believing (October 2, 2006 / Time Magazine) -- Reagan of the Left? (May 24, 2007 / The Dish) -- A Married Man (August 21, 2007 / The Dish) -- Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters (December 2007 / The Atlantic) -- How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? (March 21, 2008 / Slate) -- Phobia at the Gates (May 14, 2008 / The Washington Post) -- Why I Blog (November 2008 / The Atlantic) -- Republican Taliban Declare Jihad on Obama (February 15, 2009 / The Sunday Times) -- Mad, Maddening America, the Wisest of All (February 22, 2009 / The Sunday Times) -- Obama's Race Dream Is Swiftly Shackled (July 26, 2009 / The Sunday Times) -- Leaving the Right (December 1, 2009 / The Dish) -- Obama, Trimmer (December 2, 2009 / The Dish) -- Dear Ta-Nehisi (December 1, 2011 / The Dish) -- Why Continue to Build the Settlements? (March 30, 2012 / The Dish) -- Christianity in Crisis (April 2, 2012 / Newsweek) -- First Elite Conservative to Say Enough (July 2, 2012 / The Dish) -- Thatcher, Liberator (April 8, 2013 / The Dish) -- Surprised by Grief (August 6, 2013 / The Dish) -- Rush Limbaugh Knows Nothing about Christianity (December 3, 2013 / The Dish) -- What Is the Meaning of Pope Francis (December 17, 2013 / The Dish) -- Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic (May 1, 2016 / New York Magazine) -- I Used to Be a Human Being (September 19, 2016 / New York Magazine) -- America and the Abyss (November 3, 2016 / New York Magazine) -- America Wasn't Built for Humans (September 19, 2017 / New York Magazine) -- Kaepernick's Message Is Getting Lost--Along with the Facts on Race and Police Violence (September 29, 2017 / New York Magazine) -- We All Live on Campus Now (February 9, 2018 / New York Magazine) -- Poison We Pick (February 20, 2018 / New York Magazine) -- Just Say Yes to Drugs (May 25, 2018 / New York Magazine) -- America's New Religions (December 7, 2018 / New York Magazine) -- Nature of Sex (February 1, 2019 / New York Magazine) -- Why Joe Biden Might Be the Best Bet to Beat Trump (May 3, 2019 / New York Magazine) -- A Plague Is an Apocalypse. But It Can Bring a New World (July 21, 2020 / New York Magazine) -- Unbearable Whiteness of the Classics (February 5, 2021 / The Weekly Dish) -- Two Sexes. Infinite Genders (February 26, 2021 / The Weekly Dish) --Acknowledgments -- Index.