Product Description: This volume contains the proceedings of the eighteenth annual Lectures on Moral Values in a Free Society held at the University of Texas at Dallas on November 11-13, 1996. The lecture series is designed to provide a forum for discussing vital issues that confront society today, based on an understanding of the system of moral values on which our country was founded and continues to rest...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "In the United States, we try to comfort ourselves with the belief that this country, as the leading world power and industrial democracy, is different from the rest of the world--that we have solved our day-to-day problems. Such optimism--undergirded with the best of intentions--obscures the reality of the social problems that remain among us...read more