Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. American Civic Life
1. America's Search for a Public Philosophy
2. Beyond Individualism: Democrats and Community
3. The Politics of Easy Virtue
4. Big Ideas
5. The Problem with Civility
6. ImpeachmentThen and Now
7. Robert F. Kennedy's Promise
Part II. Moral and Political Arguments
8. Against State Lotteries
9. Commercials in the Classroom
10. Branding the Public Realm
11. Sports and Civic Identity
12. History for Sale
13. The Market for Merit
14. Should We Buy the Right to Pollute?
15. Honor and Resentment
16. Arguing Affirmative Action
17. Should Victims Have a Say in Sentencing?
18. Clinton and Kant on Lying
19. Is There a Right to Assisted Suicide?
20. Embryo Ethics: The Moral Logic of Stem Cell Research
21. Moral Argument and Liberal Toleration: Abortion and Homosexuality
Part III. Liberalism, Pluralism, and Community
22. Morality and the Liberal Ideal
23. The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self
24. Justice as Membership
25. The Peril of Extinction
26. Dewey's Liberalism and Ours
27. Mastery and Hubris in Judaism: What's Wrong with Playing God?
28. Political Liberalism
29. Remembering Rawls
30. The Limits of Communitarianism
Notes
Credits
Index