Pt. 1. Where are you coming from?. Exile: El Paso, Texas/ Benjamin Saenz -- Shooting dad/ Sarah Vowell -- Profile of an Arab daughter/ Elmaz Abinader -- Theme for English B (poem)/ Langston Hughes -- No name woman/ Maxine Hong Kingston -- "You can be anything you want to be -- no limits" (cartoon)/ Peter Steiner -- I listen to my parents an I wonder what they believe/ Robert Coles -- Stone soup/ Barbara Kingsolver -- Voices from White Earth/ Winona LaDuke -- The authentic trail/ John Daniels.
Pt. 2. Are we responsible for others?. Too many colleges are still in denial about alcohol abuse/ Henry Wechsler, Charles Deutsch, and George Dowdall -- The parable of the Sadhu/ Bowen H. Mccoy -- Welcoming the stranger/ Stephen L. Carter -- The moral obligations of living in a democratic society/ Cornel West -- Lifeboat ethics: the case against helping the poor/ Garrett Hardin -- Cyberspace: if you don't love it, leave it/ Esther Dyson -- Save the whales, screw the shrimp/ Joy Williams -- The Earth charter -- On morality/ Joan Didion -- Traveling through the dark (poem)/ William Stafford.
Pt. 3. Is violence necessary?. Giving up the gun/ Andre Dubus -- I don't believe this (story)/ Merrill Joan Gerber -- The case for torture/ Michael Levin -- The need for discernment/ The Dalai Lama -- Two words/ Terry Tempest Williams -- The pursuit of happiness: four revolutionary words/ Andrew Sullivan -- "If you still want to belong to an organization dedicated to killing Americans, there's always the tobacco lobby"/ Alex Gregory -- Nobel lecture/ Kofi Annan -- The casualty/ Dan Baum -- Eros and Thanatos/ Chris Hedges -- Compassion and love/ Jane Goodall.
Pt. 4. Are we our bodies?. Life-size (story)/ Jenefer Shute -- Just walk on by: black men and public space/ Brent Staples -- Looking at women/ Scott Russell Sanders -- Male body image in America/ Lynne Luciano -- A clack of tiny sparks: remembrances of a gay boyhood/ Bernard Cooper -- The story of my body/ Judith Ortiz Cofer -- On being a cripple/ Nancy Mairs -- Before and after/ Lance Armstrong -- Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?/ Ellen Goodman -- We do abortions here/ Sallie Tisdale -- Designer genes/ Bill McKibben.
Pt. 5. Is honesty the best policy?. How do you think it makes your mother feel?/ James Frey -- The best student ever/ Stephen L. Carter -- Honesty and honor codes/ Donald McCabe and Linda Klebe Trevino -- "Today at school, I tried to decide whether to cheat on my test or not" (cartoon)/ Bill Watterson -- Virtual virtues: reflections on academic integrity in the age of the internet/ Lawrence Hinman -- The Boston photographs/ Nora Ephron -- Big and bad/ Malcolm Gladwell -- The beauty myth/ Naomi Wolf -- Politics and the English language/ George Orwell.
Pt. 6. What is this worth?. Am I blue?/ Alice Walker -- Serving in Florida/ Barbara Ehrenreich -- What we eat/ Eric Schlosser -- Eggs for sale/ Rebecca Mead -- The lesson (story)/ Toni Cade Bambara -- The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits/ Milton Friedman -- Ethics: a global business challenge/ Robert Haas -- The Land Ethic/ Aldo Leopold -- A teasing irony/ Paul Hawken.
Pt. 7. Why change your mind?. "I teach my kids that these things are right and these things are wrong" (cartoon)/ Scott Adams -- C. P. Ellis/ Studs Terkel -- Long overdue/ Naomi Shihab Nye -- Singing with the fundamentalists/ Annie Dillard -- Passion at Yale/ David Denby -- The achievement of desire/ Richard Rodriguez -- Claiming an education/ Adrienne Rich -- Executions are too costly -- morally/ Helen Prejean -- The case for moral relativism/ Ruth Benedict -- The community of truth/ Parker J. Palmer.
Pt. 8. What should you do?. Get ready now (pamphlet)/ US Department of Homeland Security -- The good doctor/ Tracy Kidder -- On compassion/ Barbara Lazear Ascher -- The singer solution to world poverty/ Peter Singer -- The silence of the Lambswool Cardigans/ Rebecca Solnit -- Out of your car, off your horse/ Wendell Berry -- The world depends on this/ Kathleen Dean Moore -- Letter from Birmingham jail/ Marting Luther King Jr. -- Why I volunteer -- Tell me more/ Brenda Ueland.
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