Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. I Introduction 1
5. One. The Commitments of Civility
6. II. Political Discourse and the Defamation of Groups 23
7. III. The Philosophic Foundation for the Restriction of Speech 56
8. IV. Urban Disorders I: Chicago 1968 92
9. V. Urban Disorders II: The Urban Riots 123
10. VI. The Sources of Disorder: Kenneth Clark and the Problem of the Ghetto 147
11. Two. Education
12. VII. Equity and Comity in the Schools 173
13. VIII. The Theory and Practice of "Community Control" 195
14. IX. Segregation, Busing, and the Idea of Law 223
15. Three. Power Structures
16. X. Power Structures in the City 259
17. XI. The "New" Politics and the Old 284
18. Four. Housing 307
19. XII. Black Politics And The Question Of Housing 309
20. XIII. Housing and ahe Reach of the Law 346
21. Five. The City and Republican Virtue 383
22. XIV. Law, Morals, and the Regulation of Vice 385
23. XV. On Principles and Experience: Republican Virtue 427
24. Index 457