Meditations of a Militant Moderate

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

AvPeter H. Schuck

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Vital center. Radical middle. Amid the red state/blue state divide, is there now space for an iconoclastic militant moderate? In this unusual and remarkably readable collection of short essays on a wide variety of hot-button public issues—race, affirmative action, surrogate motherhood, diversity, immigration, compensation of 9/11 victims, exclusion of gays from the Boy Scouts and the military, the 2004 election, the rule of law in developing countries, the invasion of Iraq, and many more—Yale Law School professor Peter H. Schuck reveals the distinctive sensibility and policy orientation of a militant moderate: pragmatic, reformist, nonideological, empirically minded, and skeptical of many liberal and conservative pieties.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-08-31
Mått149 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742539600

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Chapter 1 Preface: What Is a Militant Moderate?Part 2 Part I: Civil Rights and WrongsChapter 3 Affirmative Action I: Don't Mend It or End It—Bend ItChapter 4 Affirmative Action II: The Supreme Court Botches the JobChapter 5 Affirmative Action III: Racial Preferences in Supreme Court NominationsChapter 6 Groups and Equal Protection: The Flawed Theory of Owen FissChapter 7 Race Matters: The Incoherence of Cornel WestChapter 8 Slavery Reparations: A Misguided MovementChapter 9 Housing Integration: Use Vouchers, Not CourtsPart 10 Part II: The Culture WarsChapter 11 The Pledge of Allegiance: A Noncoercive Endorsement of ReligionChapter 12 School Vouchers: A Compelling Case for ChoiceChapter 13 Military Recruitment on Campus: The Solomon AmendmentChapter 14 Expressive Groups: Political Parties and Gays in the Boy ScoutsChapter 15 Professors and Profession: An Odd CoupleChapter 16 Tax Day: Deficit Reduction Made EasyPart 17 Part III: The Rule of LawChapter 18 Class Actions: Analyzing the IssuesChapter 19 Punitive Damages: Lawless (In)justiceChapter 20 Lying: Law's AmbivalenceChapter 21 Civil Juries: Here to StayChapter 22 Impact Litigation: Courts and Institutional ReformChapter 23 Gun Control: Keeping Tort Law in Its PlaceChapter 24 Tort Reform: A Mixed BagChapter 25 Surrogate Motherhood: Reflections on Baby MPart 26 Part IV: Dealing with Terrorism and VictimsChapter 27 Preemptive Strikes: Revising the UN CharterChapter 28 Profiling: The Uses of StereotypesChapter 29 Compensating Victims: Some Hard QuestionsChapter 30 The 9/11 Compensation Fund: A Bad PrecedentChapter 31 Adjudicating Terrorism: A Hybrid Model CourtPart 32 Part V: A Nation of ImmigrantsChapter 33 Immigration, Diversity, and Nationhood: The Formula Still WorksChapter 34 Refugees: Protecting More by Sharing the BurdenChapter 35 Reforming the 1996 Immigration Reform: Advice to President BushChapter 36 Citizenship after 9/11: Continuity and ChangeChapter 37 Immigrant Voting: Wrong Response to a Genuine NeedPart 38 Part VI: Developing GiantsChapter 39 China: Forward and BackwardChapter 40 India: What the Raj WroughtPart 41 Part VII: The Future of LiberalismChapter 42 Rethinking Liberalism: A Paradox UnresolvedChapter 43 Diversity: Society's TeacherChapter 44 Punctilios for a Diverse Society: Candor and Thicker SkinsChapter 45 The 2004 Elections: A Militant Moderate's Interpretation

Can affirmative action be fixed? Did 9/11 victims deserve special compensation? When is stereotyping necessary? In the age of Michael Moore and Ann Coulter, Peter Schuck shows that the middle, far from being a halfway house, has an intellectual vibrance all its own, and he reminds a hyperventilating culture that in the values debate the greatest strength of all—wisdom—is in the center. Dip into Meditations of a Militant Moderate and meet one of the best essayists of our time.