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| Topical Clusters | p. VIII |
| Rhetorical Table of Contents | p. XVI |
| Preface | p. XXIV |
| Introduction: Becoming a Critical Reader | p. 1 |
| Family Ties | p. 12 |
| "Those Winter Sundays" | p. 15 |
| "One Last Time" | p. 16 |
| "Once More to the Lake" | p. 23 |
| "No Name Woman" | p. 29 |
| "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" | p. 40 |
| "The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me" | p. 47 |
| Fiction: Harlan Coben, "The Key to My Father" | p. 56 |
| Focus: Does Gay Marriage Threaten the Family? | p. 61 |
| "What Are We Fighting For?" | p. 62 |
| "What Marriage Is For" | p. 65 |
| "Marriage Just Lets the State Back In" | p. 72 |
| Issues in Education | p. 80 |
| "The Sanctuary of School" | p. 83 |
| "School Is Bad for Children" | p. 86 |
| "School's Out" | p. 91 |
| "Graduation" | p. 103 |
| "The Good Immigrant Student" | p. 113 |
| "For More Balance on Campuses" | p. 121 |
| Fiction: Edward P. Jones, "The First Day" | p. 124 |
| Focus: How Much Do a College's Facilities Really Matter? (Photo essay) | p. 129 |
| The Politics of Language | p. 134 |
| "Baca Grande" | p. 137 |
| "Aria" | p. 139 |
| "Two Languages in Mind, But Just One in the Heart" | p. 146 |
| "Learning to Read and Write" | p. 150 |
| "You Can't Say That" | p. 155 |
| "Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language" | p. 158 |
| "Mother Tongue" | p. 170 |
| "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" | p. 175 |
| "Propaganda Under a Dictatorship" | p. 183 |
| "Politics and the English Language" | p. 189 |
| Focus: How Free Should Free Speech Be? | p. 201 |
| "The Free-Speech Follies" | p. 202 |
| "A Chill Wind Is Blowing in This Nation" | p. 206 |
| "It's Time to Junk the Double Standard on Free Speech" | p. 211 |
| Media and Society | p. 218 |
| Speech to Radio-Television News Directors Association | p. 221 |
| "Television: The Plug-In Drug" | p. 231 |
| "Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality" | p. 239 |
| "Is Music Piracy Stealing?" | p. 242 |
| "Eminem Is Right" | p. 250 |
| "Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura?" | p. 257 |
| Fiction: Amanda Holzer, "Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape" | p. 272 |
| Focus: Has the Internet Doomed the Newspaper? | p. 274 |
| "Bad News" | p. 275 |
| "A Loser's Game" | p. 285 |
| "Not Just Another Column about Blogging" | p. 290 |
| Life and Lifestyle | p. 298 |
| "The World Is Too Much with Us" | p. 301 |
| "The Transformation of Everyday Life" | p. 302 |
| "The Boredom Effect" | p. 310 |
| "Putting Up the Gates" | p. 314 |
| "Supersize Me" | p. 318 |
| "The Fashion Victim's Ten Commandments" | p. 326 |
| Focus: Can We Build Real Communities Online? | |
| "Connecting Communities: On and Offline" | p. 341 |
| "What Adolescents Miss when We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace" | p. 349 |
| "The Internet in a Cup" | p. 351 |
| Gender and Identity | p. 362 |
| "Barbie Doll" | p. 365 |
| "Rite of Passage" | p. 366 |
| "Gardenland, Sacramento, California" | p. 367 |
| "The M/F Boxes" | p. 374 |
| "Why I Want a Wife" | p. 380 |
| "Stay-at-Home Dads" | p. 382 |
| "Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight" | p. 385 |
| "Marked Women" | p. 393 |
| Focus: Is There a Gender Crisis in Education? | p. 399 |
| "The War Against Boys" | p. 400 |
| "Boy Problems" | p. 405 |
| "Men Are from Earth, and So Are Women" | p. 408 |
| The American Dream | p. 418 |
| "We May Be Brothers" | p. 421 |
| "Why the Americans Are So Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity" | p. 423 |
| "The Library Card" | p. 427 |
| "Becoming American" | p. 435 |
| "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" | p. 442 |
| "Coming Into The Country" | p. 447 |
| "Just Walk On By" | p. 450 |
| "On Dumpster Diving" | p. 454 |
| Fiction: Amy Tan "Two Kinds" | p. 465 |
| Focus: What Is the American Dream? | p. 476 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. 477 |
| "The New Colossus" | p. 480 |
| Inaugural Address | p. 481 |
| "I Have a Dream" | p. 485 |
| Why We Work | p. 492 |
| "Why We Work" | p. 495 |
| "Professions for Women" | p. 500 |
| "The Second Shift" | p. 505 |
| "Behind the Counter" | p. 511 |
| "Selling in Minnesota" | p. 519 |
| "Delusions of Grandeur" | p. 523 |
| "What Nurses Stand For" | p. 526 |
| Fiction: Jamaica Kincaid "Girl" | p. 536 |
| Focus: Is Outsourcing Bad for America? | p. 538 |
| "Let Someone Else Do It: The Impulse Behind Everything" | p. 539 |
| "Missed Target: Is Outsourcing Really So Bad?" | p. 542 |
| "Fair Exchange: Who Benefits from Outsourcing?" | p. 548 |
| Science and Human Values | p. 558 |
| "Apollo" | p. 561 |
| Is Global Warming Fact or Fiction? | p. 563 |
| "Global Warming: Is It Already Too Late?" | p. 564 |
| "Climate Change: Menace or Myth?" | p. 569 |
| "The False Alert of Global Warming" | p. 575 |
| Can the Energy Crisis Be Solved? | p. 581 |
| "Over a Barrel" | p. 582 |
| "Energy's Future" | p. 592 |
| "The End of Oil" | p. 602 |
| Are Men Better in Math and Science than Women? | p. 611 |
| Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce | p. 613 |
| Response to Lawrence Summers | p. 622 |
| "Summers of Our Discontent" | p. 627 |
| "The Truth about Men and Women" | p. 630 |
| Religion in America | p. 636 |
| "Salvation" | p. 639 |
| "Our Faith in Science" | p. 641 |
| "Among the Believers" | p. 644 |
| "Kicking the Secularist Habit" | p. 647 |
| "Turning Faith into Elevator Music" | p. 652 |
| "Muslim in America" | p. 655 |
| "Earthly Empires" | p. 659 |
| Fiction: Raymond Carver "Cathedral" | p. 666 |
| Focus: Is There Intelligent Design in Nature? | p. 679 |
| "Finding Design in Nature" | p. 680 |
| "Why Intelligent Design Isn't" | p. 682 |
| "Finding Darwin's God" | p. 692 |
| Making Choices | p. 706 |
| "The Road Not Taken" | p. 709 |
| "Ethics" | p. 710 |
| "The Deer at Providencia" | p. 711 |
| "Shooting an Elephant" | p. 715 |
| "Civil Disobedience" | p. 722 |
| "Letter from Birmingham Jail" | p. 741 |
| "Dog Lab" | p. 756 |
| "The Perils of Obedience" | p. 764 |
| Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | p. 777 |
| Focus: Can We Be Both Free and Safe? | p. 783 |
| "The Most Patriotic Act" | p. 784 |
| "Why Liberty Suffers in Wartime" | p. 786 |
| "Imbalance of Power" | p. 790 |
| Credits | p. 799 |
| Index of Authors and Titles | p. 811 |
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