A rigorous critic and often an amusing one, Stanley Fish knows how to get under our skin but he also make us think. Gathering 100 of Fish's provocative New York Times essays, this collection hopscotches through such controversies as religion, affirmative action, free speech, identity politics, guns, and postmodernism. While dissecting the arguments put forth by different sides in order to explain how their arguments succeed or fail to add up, Fish ventures his own musings in such pieces as "The First Amendment and Kittens," "Conspiracy Theories 101," "I Am, Therefore I Pollute," and the autobiographical "Max the Plumber."