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