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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Culture and Values | |
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| Is America in Moral Decline? | |
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| Yes: from Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline (Regan Books, 1996) | |
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| No: from "Our Changing Culture: Abandoning the Sixties," Current (June 2004) | |
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| Does the News Media Have a Liberal Bias? | |
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| Yes: from Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism (Encounter Books, 2001) | |
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| No: from "The 'Left-Wing' Media?" Monthly Review (June 2003) | |
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| Is Third World Immigration a Threat to America's Way of Life? | |
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| Yes: from "Shields Up!" The American Enterprise (March 2002) | |
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| No: from "Immigration Is Good," The American Enterprise (March 2002) | |
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| Sex Roles, Gender, and the Family | |
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| Is the Decline of the Traditional Family a National Crisis? | |
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| Yes: from "The American Family Crisis," National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal (Summer 1995) | |
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| No: from "Can Marriage Be Saved?" Dissent (Summer 2005) | |
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| Should Mothers Stay Home with Their Children? | |
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| Yes: from "The Case for Staying Home," Time (March 22, 2004) | |
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| No: from The Mommy Myth (Free Press, 2004) | |
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| Should Same-Sex Marriages Be Legally Recognized? | |
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| Yes: from "Answers to Questions about Marriage Equality" (HRC's FamilyNet Project, 2004) | |
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| No: from "Questions and Answers: What's Wrong with Letting Same-Sex Couples 'Marry'?" (Family Research Council, 2004) | |
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| Stratification and Inequality | |
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| Is Increasing Economic Inequality a Serious Problem? | |
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| Yes: from "Does Inequality Matter?" Daedalus (Winter 2002) | |
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| No: from "The New Wealth of Nations," Commentary (October 1997) | |
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| Is the Underclass the Major Threat to American Ideals? | |
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| Yes: from "And Now for the Bad News," Society (November/December 1999) | |
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| No: from "Capitalism, the Market, the 'Underclass,' and the Future," Society (November/December 1999) | |
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| Has Affirmative Action Outlived Its Usefulness? | |
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| Yes: from "Racial Preference Versus Nondiscrimination," Society (March/April 2004) | |
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| No: from "Inequalities that Endure?" in Maria Krysan and Amanda E. Lewis, eds., The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004) | |
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| Are Boys and Men Disadvantaged Relative to Girls and Women? | |
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| Yes: from "The New Gender Gap," Business Week Online (May 26, 2003) | |
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| No: from "Reversing the 'Gender Gap'," Political Affairs (March 2004) | |
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| Political Economy and Institutions | |
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| Is Government Dominated by Big Business? | |
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| Yes: from "This Is the Fight of Our Lives," Timeline (September/October 2004) | |
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| No: from "Citizen Groups and the Changing Nature of Interest Group Politics in America," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (July 1993) | |
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| Should Government Intervene in a Capitalist Economy? | |
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| Yes: from "Bull Run: Capitalism with a Democratic Face," The New Republic (March 22, 2004) | |
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| No: from "The Real Cost of Regulation," Imprimis (May 2001) | |
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| Has Welfare Reform Benefited the Poor? | |
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| Yes: from "Understanding Welfare Reform," Harvard Magazine (November/December 2004) | |
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| No: from "Off the Rolls: The Ground-Level Results of Welfare Reform," Dissent Magazine (Fall 2003) | |
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| Is Competition the Reform That Will Fix Education? | |
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| Yes: from "The Key to Closing the Minority Schooling Gap: School Choice," The American Enterprise (April/May 2003) | |
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| No: from "Think the Unthinkable," Educational Horizons (Summer 2004) | |
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| Should Biotechnology Be Used to Alter and Enhance Humans? | |
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| Yes: from Beyond Therapy (Regan Books, 2004) | |
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| No: from "The Case Against Perfection," The Atlantic Monthly (April 2004) | |
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| Crime and Social Control | |
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| Is Street Crime More Harmful Than White-Collar Crime? | |
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| Yes: from "The Aggregate Burden of Crime," Journal of Law and Economics XLII (2) (October 1999) | |
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| No: from The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, 5th ed. (Allyn & Bacon, 1998) | |
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| Should Drug Use Be Decriminalized? | |
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| Yes: from "Commonsense Drug Policy," Foreign Affairs (January/February 1998) | |
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| No: from "America's Longest 'War,'" The World & I (February 2000) | |
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| Does the Threat of Terrorism Warrant Curtailment of Civil Liberties? | |
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| Yes: from "Liberty and Terrorism: Avoiding a Police State," Current (December 2003) | |
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| No: from "Your Every Move," The Humanist (January/February 2004) | |
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| The Future: Population/Environment/Society | |
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| Is Mankind Dangerously Harming the Environment? | |
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| Yes: from "Pushing Beyond the Earth's Limits," The Futurist (May/June 2005) | |
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| No: from "The Truth About the Environment," The Economist (August 4, 2001) | |
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| Is Globalization Good for Mankind? | |
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| Yes: from "Three Cheers for Global Capitalism," The American Enterprise (June 2004) | |
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| No: from "Globalization and Its Discontents," Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly (Spring/Summer 2001) | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |