ABORTION
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| Commonweal |
Too Many Abortions |
| Ellen Willis |
Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate |
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ANIMAL RIGHTS
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| Peggy Carlson |
Why We Don't Need Animal Experimentation |
| Vicki Hearne |
What's Wrong with Animal Rights? |
| Heloisa Sabin |
Animal Research Saves Human Lives |
| Peter Singer |
Animal Liberation |
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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| David Bruck |
The Death Penalty |
| Edward I. Koch |
Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life |
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CENSORSHIP AND FREE SPEECH
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| Susan Brownmiller |
Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet |
| Richard Delgado |
Hate Cannot Be Tolerated |
| Susan Jacoby |
Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie |
| Michiko Kakutani |
The Word Police |
| Barbara Lawrence |
Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You |
| Charles R. Lawrence III |
On Racist Speech |
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CLASSIC ARGUMENTS
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| William F. Buckley Jr. |
Why Don't We Complain? |
| Thomas Jefferson |
The Declaration of Independence |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
I Have a Dream |
| Plato |
Crito |
| Jonathan Swift |
A Modest Proposal |
| Virginia Woolf |
Professions for Women |
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY
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| Linda Chavez |
Demystifying Multiculturalism |
| Michael Dorris |
For Indians, No Thanksgiving |
| Bernard Lewis |
The Roots of Muslim Rage |
| Bharati Mukherjee |
Two Ways to Belong in America |
| Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut |
Immigrant America: A Portrait |
| Ishmael Reed |
America: The Multinational Society |
| Edward Said |
Clashing Civilizations? |
| Beverly Daniel Tatum |
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? |
| Cornel West |
On Black Fathering |
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DRUG LEGALIZATION
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| William J. Bennett |
Should Drugs Be Legalized? |
| Milton Friedman |
Prohibition and Drugs |
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ENVIRONMENT
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| Rachel Carson |
Fable for Tomorrow |
| Rachel Carson |
The Obligation to Endure |
| Al Gore |
Environmentalism of the Spirit |
| Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and
Jorgen Randers |
The Limits to Growth |
| Wallace Stegner |
Wilderness Letter |
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EUTHANASIA
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| Ronald Dworkin |
Assisted Suicide: The Philosopher's Brief |
| James Rachels |
Active and Passive Euthanasia |
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GAY RIGHTS
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| Lisa Schiffren |
Gay Marriage: An Oxymoron |
| Sam Schulman |
Gay Marriage—and Marriage |
| Andrew Sullivan |
Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage |
| Lindsy Van Gelder |
Marriage as a Restricted Club |
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STANDARDIZED TESTING
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| Rod Paige |
Testing Has Raised Students' Expectations, and Progress in Learning Is Evident Nationwide |
| Reg Weaver |
NCLB's Excessive Reliance on Testing Is Unrealistic,
Arbitrary, and Frequently Unfair |
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TORTURE
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| Philip B. Heymann |
Torture Should Not Be Authorized |
| Michael Levin |
The Case for Torture |
| Clinton R. Van Zandt |
It Should Be Permissible to Torture Suspected Terrorists to
Gather Information |
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