Contents
Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English
Henry Fairlie 1
Lesson 2 The Sad Young Men
Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards 17
Lesson 3 Loving and Hating New York
Thomas Griffith 39
Lesson 4 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Excerpts)
Ursula Le Guin 55
Lesson 5 The Future of the English
J. B. Priestley 73
Lesson 6 The Loons
Margaret Laurence 93
Lesson 7 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
James Baldwin 117
Lesson 8 Four Laws of Ecology (Part I)
Barry Commoner 135
Lesson 9 Four Laws of Ecology (Part II)
Barry Commoner 155
Lesson 10 The Mansion: A Subprime Parable (Excerpts)
Michael Lewis 171
Lesson 11 Faustian Economics
Wendell Berry 193
Lesson 12 Disappearing Through the Skylight (Excerpts)
Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr. 217
List of Suggested Reference Books 236