Contents
- New selections higlighted in bold text
- On Torture and Murder
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- Michael Levin, The Case for Torture
- Cesare Bonesana, Torture
- Vincent Bugliosi, O.J. Was Guilty
- Johnnie Cochran, O.J. Was Not Guilty
- John Henry Wigmore, The Borden Case
- Sigmund Freud, Human Nature Is Inherently Bad
- On the Causes of Crime
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- Michael Harrington, Defining Poverty
- David Rubinstein, Don’t Blame Crime on Joblessness
- Don B. Kates, Jr., Handgun Bans: Facts to Fight With
- John Henry Sloan, et al., Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities
- On the Death Penalty
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- Sissel Seteras Stokes, Against the Death Penalty
- H. L. Mencken, The Penalty of Death
- Justice William Brennan, Furman v. Georgia
- Justice Stewart, Gregg v. Georgia 428 U. S. 153, (excerpts from parts III, IV, and V)
- On the Arts
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- John Enright, What is Poetry
- Jesse Helms, The NEA Should Not Fund Obscenity
- Robert Hughes, A Loony Parody of Cultural Democracy
- Robert Samuelson, High Brow Pork Barrel
- Steven Durland, Censorship, Multiculturalism, and Symbols
- Marsha Familiaro Enright, Why Music Cause Emotion?
- On Science
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- Stephen Jay Gould, Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs
- Murdock Pencil (a.k.a. Michael Paconowsky), Salt Passage Research: The State of the Art
- Carl Hempel, Semmelweis’ Discovery
- Charles Darwin, Recapitulation and Conclusion (from The Orgin of Species)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Children Should Not Be Reasoned With
- Sheila Tobias, Mathematics and Sex
- Caroline Bird, College is a Waste of Time and Money
- Max Shulman, Love is a Fallacy
- On Justice and Rights
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- Niccolo Machiavelli, On Cruelty and Clemency: Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared
- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
- Hosea L. Martin, A Few Kind Words for Affirmative Action
- Lisa H. Newton, Bakke v. Davis: Justice American Style
- Alan M. Dershowitz, Shouting "Fire!"
- On Economic Freedom and Government Regulation
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- Justice Louis Brandeis, New State Ice Co., v. Leibmann
- Henry Hazlitt, Who’s Protected by Tariffs?
- Linda Gorman, Minimum Wages
- Isaac Shapiro, The Dispute Over the Minimum Wage
- Liberty Network Association, The New World Order
- On Abortion
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- Ronald Reagan, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation
- Baruch Brody, Fetal Humanity and Brain Function
- Laurence Tribe, Opposition to Abortion Is Not Based on Alledged Rights to Life
- Mary Ann Warren, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
- On the Existence of God
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- E. K. Daniel, Two Proofs of God’s Existence
- George H. Smith, God Does Not Exist
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