Foreword by Robert Atwan
Introduction : Deciderization 2007 - a Special Report, by David Foster Wallace

Jo Ann Beard. Werner
from Tin House

Ian Buruma. The Freedom to Offend
from The New Republic

Mark Danner. Iraq: The War of the Imagination
from The New York Review of Books

W. S. di Piero. Fathead's Hard Times
from The Threepenny Review

George Gessert. An Orgy of Power
from Northwest Review

Malcolm Gladwell. What the Dog Saw
from The New Yorker

Mark Greif. Afternoon of the Sex Children
from n 1

Marione Ingram. Operation Gomorrah
from Granta

Garret Keizer. Loaded
from Harper's Magazine

John Lahr. Petrified
from The New Yorker

Louis Menand. Name That Tone
from The New Yorker

Daniel Orozco. Shakers
from StoryQuarterly

Cynthia Ozick. Out from Xanadu
from The New York Times Book Review

Molly Peacock. Passion Flowers in Winter
from PMS

Phillip Robertson. In the Mosque of Imam Ali
from TriQuarterly

Marilynne Robinson. Onward, Christian Liberals
from The American Scholar

Richard Rodriguez. Disappointment
from California

Elaine Scarry. Rules of Engagement
from Boston Review

Roger Scruton. A Carnivore's Credo
from Harper's Magazine

Peter Singer. What Should a Billionaire Give - and What Should You?
from The New York Times Magazine

Jerald Walker. Dragon Slayers
from The Iowa Review

Edward O. Wilson. Apocalypse Now
from The NewRepublic

Contributors' Notes
Notable Essays of 2006