Introduction: Why modernity is rationalized lust : Why biography is destiny -- Samoa lost : Margaret Mead, cultural relativism, and the guilty imagination -- Blue Lagoon social studies -- Homosexual as subversive : the double life of Sir Anthony Blunt -- Stanley and Jane's excellent adventure : or, Why politically correct professors hate Western civilization -- The case against Kinsey -- Liberal guilt cookies -- Cubism as sexual loathing : the case against Picasso -- Sigmund and Minna and Carl and Sabina : the birth of psychoanalysis out of the personal lives of its founders -- Luther's enduring legacy -- Epilogue: Moral realism : the ultimate deconstruction