Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics

Peter H. Schuck

doi:10.5771/9781461609049

Summary

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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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2005
Copyright Year: 2005
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-3961-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-0904-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 231
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface: What Is a Militant Moderate? No access
1. 1: Affirmative Action 1: Don't Mend it or End it-Bend it No access
2. 2: Affirmative Action II: The Supreme Court Botches the Job No access
3. 3: Affirmative Action III: Racial Preferences in Supreme Court Nominations No access
4. 4: Groups and Equal Protection: The Flawed Theory of Owen Fiss No access
5. 5: Race Matters: The Incoherence of Cornel West No access
6. 6: Slavery Reparations: A Misguided Movement No access
7. 7: Housing Integration: Use Vouchers, Not Courts No access
1. 8: The Pledge of Allegiance: A Noncoercive Endorsement of Religion No access
2. 9: School Vouchers: A Compelling Case for Choice No access
3. 10: Military Recruitment on Campus: The Solomon Amendment No access
4. 11: Expressive Groups: Political Parties and Gays in the Boy Scouts No access
5. 12: Professors and Profession: An Odd Couple No access
6. 13: Tax Day: Deficit Reduction Made Easy No access
1. 14: Class Actions: Analyzing the Issues No access
2. 15: Punitive Damages: Lawless (in)justice No access
3. 16: Lying: Law's Ambivalence No access
4. 17: Civil Juries: Here to Stay No access
5. 18: Impact Litigation: Courts and Institutional Reform No access
6. 19: Gun Control: Keeping Tort Law in its Place No access
7. 20: Tort Reform: A Mixed Bag No access
8. 21: Surrogate Motherhood: Reflections on Baby M No access
1. 22: Preemptive Strikes: Revising the UN Charter No access
2. 23: Profiling: The Uses of Stereotypes No access
3. 24: Compensating Victims: Some Hard Questions No access
4. 25: The 9/11 Compensation Fund: A Bad Precedent No access
5. 26: Adjudicating Terrorism: A Hybrid Model Court No access
1. 27: Immigration, Diversity, and Nationhood: The Formula Still Works No access
2. 28: Refugees: Protecting More by Sharing the Burden No access
3. 29: Reforming the 1996 Immigration Reform: Advice to President Bush No access
4. 30: Citizenship after 9/11: Continuity and Change No access
5. 31: Immigrant Voting: Wrong Response to a Genuine Need No access
1. 32: China: Forward and Backward No access
2. 33: India: What the Raj Wrought No access
1. 34: Rethinking Liberalism: A Paradox Unresolved No access
2. 35: Diversity: Society's Teacher No access
3. 36: Punctilios for a Diverse Society: Candor and Thicker Skins No access
4. 37: Civility: A Sometime Virtue No access
5. 38: The 2004 Elections: A Militant Moderate's Interpretation No access
Credits No access Pages 221 - 224
Index No access Pages 225 - 230
About the Author No access Pages 231 - 231