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The provocative social and political commentator Andrew Sullivan--the youngest ever editor of The New Republic, founding editor of The Daily Dish, hailed as one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades by The New York Times--presents a collection of his most iconic and powerful essays of social and political commentary from The New Republic, The Atlantic, The NYT Magazine, New York magazine, and more

Here comes the groom -- Two faces of Bensonhurst -- Gay life, gay death : the siege of a subculture -- Taken unseriously -- Quilt -- Politics of homosexuality -- Alone again, naturally -- When plagues end : notes on the twilight of an epidemic -- My America -- Princess bride -- Unsung heroine -- Going down screaming -- What's so bad about hate? -- He hormone -- "Invisible man" -- I am bear, hear me roar -- Integration day -- Log cabin Republican -- Life lesson -- Superstar -- Crisis of faith -- Still here, so sorry -- End of gay culture -- Abolition of torture -- Islamo-bullies get a free ride from the West -- Gay cowboys embraced by redneck country -- When not seeing is believing -- Reagan of the Left? -- A married man -- Goodbye to all that : why Obama matters -- How did I get Iraq wrong? -- Phobia at the gates -- Why I blog -- Republican Taliban declare jihad on Obama -- Mad, maddening America, the wisest of all -- Obama's race dream is swiftly shackled -- Leaving the Right -- Obama, trimmer -- Dear Ta-Nehisi -- Why continue to build the settlements? -- Christianity in crisis -- First elite conservative to say enough -- Thatcher, liberator -- Surprised by grief -- Rush Limbaugh knows nothing about Christianity -- What is the meaning of Pope Francis? -- Democracies end when they are too democratic -- I used to be a human being -- America and the abyss -- America wasn't built for humans -- Kaepernick's message is getting lost : along with the facts on race and police violence -- We all live on campus now -- Poison we pick -- Just say yes to drugs -- America's new religions -- Nature of sex -- Why Joe Biden might be the best bet to beat Trump -- A plague is an apocalypse, but it can bring a new world -- Unbearable whiteness of the classics -- Two sexes, infinite genders