Meditations of a Militant Moderate
Cool Views on Hot Topics
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2005
248 pages
979-8-216-33301-2 (ISBN)
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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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Peter H. Schuck is Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Content
Chapter 1 Preface: What Is a Militant Moderate?
Part 2 Part I: Civil Rights and Wrongs
Chapter 3 Affirmative Action I: Don't Mend It or End It-Bend It
Chapter 4 Affirmative Action II: The Supreme Court Botches the Job
Chapter 5 Affirmative Action III: Racial Preferences in Supreme Court Nominations
Chapter 6 Groups and Equal Protection: The Flawed Theory of Owen Fiss
Chapter 7 Race Matters: The Incoherence of Cornel West
Chapter 8 Slavery Reparations: A Misguided Movement
Chapter 9 Housing Integration: Use Vouchers, Not Courts
Part 10 Part II: The Culture Wars
Chapter 11 The Pledge of Allegiance: A Noncoercive Endorsement of Religion
Chapter 12 School Vouchers: A Compelling Case for Choice
Chapter 13 Military Recruitment on Campus: The Solomon Amendment
Chapter 14 Expressive Groups: Political Parties and Gays in the Boy Scouts
Chapter 15 Professors and Profession: An Odd Couple
Chapter 16 Tax Day: Deficit Reduction Made Easy
Part 17 Part III: The Rule of Law
Chapter 18 Class Actions: Analyzing the Issues
Chapter 19 Punitive Damages: Lawless (In)justice
Chapter 20 Lying: Law's Ambivalence
Chapter 21 Civil Juries: Here to Stay
Chapter 22 Impact Litigation: Courts and Institutional Reform
Chapter 23 Gun Control: Keeping Tort Law in Its Place
Chapter 24 Tort Reform: A Mixed Bag
Chapter 25 Surrogate Motherhood: Reflections on Baby M
Part 26 Part IV: Dealing with Terrorism and Victims
Chapter 27 Preemptive Strikes: Revising the UN Charter
Chapter 28 Profiling: The Uses of Stereotypes
Chapter 29 Compensating Victims: Some Hard Questions
Chapter 30 The 9/11 Compensation Fund: A Bad Precedent
Chapter 31 Adjudicating Terrorism: A Hybrid Model Court
Part 32 Part V: A Nation of Immigrants
Chapter 33 Immigration, Diversity, and Nationhood: The Formula Still Works
Chapter 34 Refugees: Protecting More by Sharing the Burden
Chapter 35 Reforming the 1996 Immigration Reform: Advice to President Bush
Chapter 36 Citizenship after 9/11: Continuity and Change
Chapter 37 Immigrant Voting: Wrong Response to a Genuine Need
Part 38 Part VI: Developing Giants
Chapter 39 China: Forward and Backward
Chapter 40 India: What the Raj Wrought
Part 41 Part VII: The Future of Liberalism
Chapter 42 Rethinking Liberalism: A Paradox Unresolved
Chapter 43 Diversity: Society's Teacher
Chapter 44 Punctilios for a Diverse Society: Candor and Thicker Skins
Chapter 45 The 2004 Elections: A Militant Moderate's Interpretation
Part 2 Part I: Civil Rights and Wrongs
Chapter 3 Affirmative Action I: Don't Mend It or End It-Bend It
Chapter 4 Affirmative Action II: The Supreme Court Botches the Job
Chapter 5 Affirmative Action III: Racial Preferences in Supreme Court Nominations
Chapter 6 Groups and Equal Protection: The Flawed Theory of Owen Fiss
Chapter 7 Race Matters: The Incoherence of Cornel West
Chapter 8 Slavery Reparations: A Misguided Movement
Chapter 9 Housing Integration: Use Vouchers, Not Courts
Part 10 Part II: The Culture Wars
Chapter 11 The Pledge of Allegiance: A Noncoercive Endorsement of Religion
Chapter 12 School Vouchers: A Compelling Case for Choice
Chapter 13 Military Recruitment on Campus: The Solomon Amendment
Chapter 14 Expressive Groups: Political Parties and Gays in the Boy Scouts
Chapter 15 Professors and Profession: An Odd Couple
Chapter 16 Tax Day: Deficit Reduction Made Easy
Part 17 Part III: The Rule of Law
Chapter 18 Class Actions: Analyzing the Issues
Chapter 19 Punitive Damages: Lawless (In)justice
Chapter 20 Lying: Law's Ambivalence
Chapter 21 Civil Juries: Here to Stay
Chapter 22 Impact Litigation: Courts and Institutional Reform
Chapter 23 Gun Control: Keeping Tort Law in Its Place
Chapter 24 Tort Reform: A Mixed Bag
Chapter 25 Surrogate Motherhood: Reflections on Baby M
Part 26 Part IV: Dealing with Terrorism and Victims
Chapter 27 Preemptive Strikes: Revising the UN Charter
Chapter 28 Profiling: The Uses of Stereotypes
Chapter 29 Compensating Victims: Some Hard Questions
Chapter 30 The 9/11 Compensation Fund: A Bad Precedent
Chapter 31 Adjudicating Terrorism: A Hybrid Model Court
Part 32 Part V: A Nation of Immigrants
Chapter 33 Immigration, Diversity, and Nationhood: The Formula Still Works
Chapter 34 Refugees: Protecting More by Sharing the Burden
Chapter 35 Reforming the 1996 Immigration Reform: Advice to President Bush
Chapter 36 Citizenship after 9/11: Continuity and Change
Chapter 37 Immigrant Voting: Wrong Response to a Genuine Need
Part 38 Part VI: Developing Giants
Chapter 39 China: Forward and Backward
Chapter 40 India: What the Raj Wrought
Part 41 Part VII: The Future of Liberalism
Chapter 42 Rethinking Liberalism: A Paradox Unresolved
Chapter 43 Diversity: Society's Teacher
Chapter 44 Punctilios for a Diverse Society: Candor and Thicker Skins
Chapter 45 The 2004 Elections: A Militant Moderate's Interpretation
