TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface

PART I. DEBATES ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

1. Affirmative Action: Is It Fair?
   Terry Eastland, Ending Affirmative Action
   Burke Marshall and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Not Color Blind: Just Blind

2. Cell Phones: Should Their Use While Driving Be Prohibited?
   Advocates for Cell Phone Safety, Yes, Prohibit Their Use
   Robert W. Hahn and Paul Tetlock, No, Don't Prohibit Their Use

3. Censorship: Should Public Libraries Filter Internet Sites?
   David Burt, Yes, Install Filters
   Nancy Kranich, No, Do Not Install Filters

4. Gay Marriages: Should They Be Legalized?
   Thomas B. Stoddard, Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal
   Lisa Schiffren, Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron

5. Gun Control: Would It Really Help?
   Sarah Thompson, Concealed Carry Prevents Violent Crimes
   Nan Desuka, Why Handguns Must Be Outlawed

PART II. CASEBOOKS ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

1. The Death Penalty: Can It Ever Be Justified?
   Edward I. Koch, Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life
   David Bruck, The Death Penalty
   Potter Stewart, Gregg v. Georgia
   Harry Blackmun, Dissenting Opinion in Callins v. Collins
   Sister Helen Prejean, Executions Are Too Costly -- Morally
   Casey Johnson, Yes, The Death Penalty Should Apply to Juveniles
   Emma Welch, No, The Death Penalty Should NotApply to Juveniles
   Alex Kozinski and Sean Gallagher, For an Honest Death Penalty

2. Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized?
   William J. Bennett, Drug Policy and the Intellectuals
   James Q. Wilson, Against the Legalization of Drugs
   Milton Friedman, There's No Justice in the War on Drugs
   Elliott Currie, Toward a Policy on Drugs

3. The Just War: What Are the Criteria?
   G. E. M. Anscombe, The Criteria of a Just War
   Peter Steinfels, The Just War Tradition and the Invasion of Iraq
   George A. Lopez, Iraq and Just-War Thinking
   William A. Galston, The Perils of Preemptive War
   Andrew Sullivan, Yes, a War Would Be Moral

4. Privacy: What Are Its Limits?
   Amitai Etzioni,Less Privacy Is Good For Us (and You)
   Simson Garfinkel, Privacy under Attack
   Nadine Strossen, Everyone Is Watching You
   E-mail responses to Nadine Strossen
   Judith Wagner DeCew, The Feminist Critique of Privacy

5. Sexual Harassment: Is There Any Doubt About What It Is?
   Tufts University, What Is Sexual Harassment?
   Ellen Goodman, The Reasonable Woman Standard
   Ellen Frankel Paul, Bared Buttocks and Federal Cases
   Sarah J. McCarthy, Cultural Fascism

6. Torture: Is It Ever Justifiable?
   Clinton R. Van Zandt, It Should Not Be Permissible to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information
   Vincent Iacopino, It Should Be Permitted to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information
   Philip B. Heymann, Torture Should Not Be Authorized
   Alan M. Dershowitz, Yes, It Should Be "On the books"
   Michael Levin, The Case for Torture

PART III. CLASSIC ARGUMENTS

Plato, Crito
The Myth of the Cave
Thomas More, From Utopia
Niccolò Machiavelli, From The Prince
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Judy Brady, I Want a Wife
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics
James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia