Only Super Power

Paul Hollander is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a center associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Hollander is one of the few critics who seriously address how celebrity culture has deeply altered the role and function of intellectuals. He reexamines his ideas about America's adversary culture, born of the 1960s, and provides ample illustrations of its continued vitality in new forms and voices.

• Part 1 Introduction: The Pleasures of Hate and the New Anti-AmericanismPart 2 Part I: The New Anti-AmericanismChapter 3 1. Anti-Americanism and a World-Class Hate CrimeChapter 4 2. Anti-Americanism: Murderous and RhetoricalChapter 5 3. The Politics of EnvyChapter 6 4. Anti-Americanism and Moral EquivalencePart 7 Part II: AmericanaChapter 8 5. Our Society and Its CelebritiesChapter 9 6. Watching CelebritiesChapter 10 7. Michael Moore: New Political CelebrityChapter 11 8. The Chronic Ailments of Television NewsChapter 12 9. Why Americans Like SUVsChapter 13 10. Stereotyping and the Decline of Common SenseChapter 14 11. An Islamic Requirement on CampusChapter 15 12. History Repeats Itself: Tawana Brawley and the "Exotic Dancer" at DukeChapter 16 13. Rehabilitating the Great Books: Literature and LifeChapter 17 14. The Counterculture of the HeartChapter 18 15. Old and Busier Than EverChapter 19 16. American Travelers to the Soviet UnionPart 20 Part III: Foreign MattersChapter 21 17. Alexander YakovlevChapter 22 18. Violence of Higher PurposeChapter 23 19. The North Korean GulagChapter 24 20. Admiring North KoreaChapter 25 21. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hungarian RevolutionChapter 26 22. Crossing the Moral Threshold and the Rejection of Communist Systems in Eastern EuropeChapter 27 23. Ambivalent in AmsterdamChapter 28 24. Travel in the PeloponnesosPart 29 Part IV: The Survival and Replenishment of the Adversary CultureChapter 30 25. The Resilience of the Adversary CultureChapter 31 26. The Chomsky PhenomenonChapter 32 27. The Banality of Evil and the Political Culture of HatredChapter 33 28. The Left and the PalestiniansChapter 34 29. The Personal and the Political in Lessing's FictionChapter 35 30. Haven in CubaChapter 36 31. Demystifying MarxismChapter 37 32. Public Intellectuals and the God that FailedPart 38 Part V: In ConclusionChapter 39 33. From a "Builder of Socialism" to "Free-Floating Intellectual": My Politically Incorrect Career in Sociology