CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. HISTORY AND INVESTIGATIONS Asking the Questions -- HOWARD ZINN, historian -- ELAINE SCARRY, literary scholar -- NOAM CHOMSKY, linguist -- 2. LABOR AND ECONOMY Working It Out -- ROBERT REICH, political scholar -- JULIET SCHOR, economist -- AARON FEUERSTEIN, corporate leader -- NAOMI KLEIN, journalist -- 3. DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY Balancing the Scales -- LANI GUINIER, legal scholar -- KATHA POLLITT, writer -- 4. BRUTALITY, BLOODSHED, AND RESOLUTION A Violent Inheritance -- MARTHA MINOW, legal scholar -- SWANEE HUNT, diplomat -- JENNIFER LEANING, physician -- 5. RELIGION AND ETHICS In Search of Global Values -- HARVEY COX, theologian -- PETER SINGER, ethicist -- 6. DISTANCE AND PROXIMITY Closing the Gap -- PAUL FARMER, physician -- AMY GOODMAN, journalist -- SOURCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.