Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Health Care Reform as a Challenge to Civil Discourse and Order

Chapter 2: Social Justice or Self-Interest Hegemony

Chapter 3: Economic Recovery and the Pendulum of Maintaining a Sustainable Fiscal   

                   Policy

Chapter 4: Breakdown of Civil Discourse and the Rise of Extremism

Chapter 5: Educating Citizens for Civil and Rational Discourse in a Multicultural Society

Chapter 6: The Politics of Ignorance and Self-Interest

Chapter 7: Hope, Superficial Bi-Partisanship, Smears, Filibusters, and Disillusionment

Chapter 8: Restoring Civility, Public Discourse, and Democracy

Chapter 9: Epilogue