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ABORTION


Commonweal Too Many Abortions
Ellen Willis Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate

ANIMAL RIGHTS


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

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT


David Bruck The Death Penalty
Edward I. Koch Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life

CENSORSHIP AND FREE SPEECH


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

CLASSIC ARGUMENTS


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

CULTURAL DIVERSITY


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

DRUG LEGALIZATION


William J. Bennett Should Drugs Be Legalized?
Milton Friedman Prohibition and Drugs

ENVIRONMENT


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

EUTHANASIA


Ronald Dworkin Assisted Suicide: The Philosopher's Brief
James Rachels Active and Passive Euthanasia

GAY RIGHTS


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

STANDARDIZED TESTING


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

TORTURE


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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