Essential Communitarian Reader Book

	Introduction
	The Responsive Communitarian Platform: Rights and Responsibilities
1	Foundations of Communitarian Liberalism	3
2	Community Properly Understood: A Defense of "Democratic Communitarianism"	15
3	The Limits of Libertarianism	21
4	A Moral Reawakening Without Puritanism	41
5	The Dangers of Soft Despotism	47
6	Beyond Teledemocracy: "America on the Line"	55
7	Social Justice: A Communitarian Perspective	61
8	A Precarious Balance: Economic Opportunity, Civil Society, and Political Liberty	73
9	Rights and Responsibilities	97
10	"Absolute" Rights: Property and Privacy	107
11	Permissible Paternalism: In Defense of the Nanny State	115
12	Finding a Place for Community in the First Amendment	125
13	AIDS Prevention vs. Cultural Sensitivity	131
14	A Gangsta's Rights	139
15	A Liberal-Democratic Case for the Two-Parent Family	145
16	How Therapists Threaten Marriages	157
17	Residential Community Associations: Community or Disunity?	167
18	When Redistribution and Economic Growth Fail	177
19	What Makes a Good Urban Park?	183
20	The Loss of Public Space	187
21	Rebuilding Urban Communities	199
22	The Libertarian Conundrum: Why the Market Does Not Safeguard Civil Rights	207
23	Drug Abuse Control Policy: Libertarian, Authoritarian, Liberal, and Communitarian Perspectives	217
24	Inner-City Crime: What the Federal Government Should Do	227
25	A Mandate For Liberty: Requiring Education-Based Community Service	237
26	Social Science Finds: "Marriage Matters"	247
27	Democracy and the Politics of Difference	259
28	Pluralism vs. Particularism in American Education	269
29	Immigration and Political Community in the United States	283
30	Who Killed Modern Manners?	295
	Index	303
	About the Contributors	321