This issue-centered thematic reader presents a range of provocative and politically balanced readings from the left, the right, and the center of the current political spectrum by journalists, activists, theorists, academics, and policy makers. Accompanying questions and writing assignments teach students to think and write critically about the selections and the issues they represent.
Robert Atwan is the founder and series editor of the annual Best American Essays. The editor of numerous anthologies, he has written on the ancient literature of the Near East and his critical essays and poetry reviews have appeared in many national periodicals. Laurance Wieder is the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Coronet of Tours; No Harm Done; The Last Century: Selected Poems; and One Hundred Fifty Psalms, a complete psalter. He has taught Bible and Ancient Authors at Cornell University.
