The Overloaded Liberal Shopping, Investing, Parenting, and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism

by HAWTHORNE, FRAN

• ISBN13: 9780807001295
• ISBN10: 0807001295
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

A veteran journalist and levelheaded mom tackles the ethics of everyday life We live in a society that is at once the most politically aware and the most consumer oriented in human history. Twenty-first-century shoppers donrs"t just consume; we investigate and categorize the impact of our decisions on climate change, animals, our health, our political views, geopolitical relationships, working conditions, and more. Yet when we actually try to live according to our principles, it can be so overwhelming, contradictory, and demanding that we want to scream. Whatrs"s a good liberal to do? Fran Hawthorne sets out to answer this question-and spark more.

Author Biography

Award-winning journalist Fran Hawthorne has been a writer or editor at Fortune, BusinessWeek, Institutional Investor, and other publications. She is the author of three books on health care and investing, including Inside the FDA and Pension Dumping. She lives with her family in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Juggling Lessons	p. 1
Morals at the Mall	p. 21
Can an Ethical Liberal Eat Meat? (and Other Food-Related Quandaries)	p. 54
Enough Green, Already!	p. 91
Beyond Apartheid and Tobacco: Redefining Social Investing	p. 121
The People Who Make Our Stuff	p. 139
The Price of Purity	p. 157
How the Experts Set Their Priorities	p. 174
My Choices	p. 197
Acknowledgments	p. 215
Notes	p. 217
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