Controversies Book

Introduction: Reading and Writing Arguments.

1. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Looking at America.
Margaret Mead, One Vote for this Age of Anxiety.
Philip G. Zimbardo, The Age of Indifference.
Norman Lear, Cashing in the Commonweal for the Commonwheel of Fortune.
Donald Reilly, Religious freedom is my immediate goal, but my long-range plan is to go into real estate."
Richard Rodriguez, Does America Still Exist?
Writing Suggestions.

2. What's Happening to the American Family?
George Gallup, Jr., The Faltering Family.
Margaret Mead, Can the American Family Survive?
Joe Mirdehi, "Gerald, I'm switching to another channel."
Joseph L. White, Black Family Life.
Garrison Keillor, My Stepmother, Myself.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The "Playboy" Man and the American Family.
Writing Suggestions.

3. Racial and Gender Equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
Gloria Steinem, Why Women Work.
Moreu, "Nice work, Joan of Arc!"
Judy Brady, Why I Want a Wife.
Bernard R. Goldberg, Television Insults Men, Too.
Bernard E. Anderson, A Economic Defense of Affirmative Action.
Writing Suggestions.

4. AIDS and Its Victims.
Bruce Lambert, Even You Can Get It.
Stephen Jay Gould, The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS.
William Buckley, Jr., Identify All the Carriers.
Richard Goldstein, AIDS andtheSocial Contract.
Writing Suggestions.

5. Abortion: The Debate Continues.
Sallie Tisdale, We Do Abortion Here: A Nurse's Story.
Ellen Willsi, Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate.
Linda Bird Francke, The Ambivalence of Abortion.
George F. Will, Discretionary Killing.
Planned Parenthood, What Every Man Should Know About Abortion.
Jean Seligmann, The Medical Quandary.
Writing Suggestions.

6. Animal Experimentation: Unwarranted Cruelty?
Patricia Curtis, The Argument Against Animal Experimentation.
Jack Rosenberger, Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
New York Magazine, Bumper sticker, pins, and print ads from the pro- and anti-fur factions (or, one the itmes in this collage).
Teresa K. Rye, How I Benefited from Animal Research.
An AMA White Paper, Use of Animals in Biomedical Research.
Michael E. Debakey, M. D., Holding Human Health Hostage.
Writing Suggestions.

7. America's Dependency on Drugs.
Kevin Tunell, I Didn't Think It Could Happen to Me.
Linda Weltner, Every 27 Minutes.
Joseph Califano and Paul Screvane, Pro/Con: Restrict Smoking in Public Places?
Auth, Thank You for Smoking.
Norman Cousins, Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy.
Ed Stein, War on Drugs.
William Bennett, Should Drugs Be Legalized?
Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Cocaine Lies.
Writing Suggestions.

8. Hunger and Homelessness: Our National Disgrace.
Jon D. Hull, Slow Descent into Hell.
Peter Marin, Helping and Hating the Homeless.
Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor.
Foster Parents Plan, Here's Your Chance to Achieve a Small Moral Victory.
Shelley List, Each Starving Child Is Your Child.
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal.
Writing Suggestions.

9. Gun Control: The Right to Bear Arms.
Edward M. Kennedy, The Need for Gun Control Legislation.
Barry Goldwater, Why Gun Control Laws Don't Work.
Handgun, Inc., A $29 Handgun Shattered My Family's Life.
National Rifle Association, I'm the NRA.
Adam Smith, Fifty Million Handguns.
Robert Hughes, The NRA in a Hunter's Sights.
Gerald Nachman, Biting the Bullets.

10. Crime, Criminals, and Victims.
Brent Staples, A Brother's Murder.
Martin Gansberg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police.
Zeigler, "It's People Like You, young man, who ruin it for everyone else!"
Ellen Sweet, Date Rape: The Story of an Epidemic and Those Who Deny It.
Ethan A Nadelmann, Shooting Up.
Jean Harris, Inside Story.

11. Capital Punishment.
George Orwell, A Hanging.
Clarence Darrow, The Futility of the Death Penalty.
H.L. Mencken, The Penalty of Death.
Edward I. Koch, Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life.
Marvin L. Coan, Let the Convicted Person Decide.
Writing Suggestions.

12. Censorship.
Nat Hentoff, When Nice People Burn Books.
American Library Association, Caution!: Puzzled by Banned Books?
Phyllis Schlafly, Citizens' Bill of Rights about Schools and Libraries.
Tipper Gore, The Smut and Sadism of Rock.
Caryl Rivers, What Should Be Done about Rock Lyrics.
Frank Zappa, The Wives of Big Brother.
Garry Wills, In Praise of Censure.

13. The Right to Die.
Barbara Huttmann, A Crime of Compassion.
Evan R. Collins, Jr., The Right to Choose Life or Death.
James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia.
Frank Morriss, Euthanasia--No!
Matthew E. Conolly, Euthanasia Is Not the Answer.

14. Protecting the Environment: Preparations for the 21st Century.
Paul and Anne Ehrlich, The Rivet Poppers.
African Wildlife Foundation, Only Elephants Should Wear Ivory.
Wallace Stegner, The Gift of Wilderness.
Dedini, Hard to Believe This Was All Rain Forest Just Fifteen Years Ago.
Rachel Carson, Our Assault on Nature.
Robert James Bidinotto, What Is the Truth about Global Warming?
William L. Rathje, Rubbish.
Issac Asimov, The Case Against Man.
Writing Suggestions.