Introduction -- Credits -- On the Difficulty of Imagining a Better Society -- Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Deeply Inscribed Social Ills? -- Judges' Misjudgments -- Why Do We Tell the Same Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma -- On the Difficulty of Hearing What Our Prophets Are Saying -- The Imperial Scholar: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing -- Gathering with the Like-Minded: Symposium Battles -- Pornography and Harm to Women: "No Empirical Evidence"? -- Why We Always Embrace Moderate Solutions (or Saviors) -- “Our Better Natures”: A Revisionist View of the Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental Theory -- Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power -- Supreme Court (and Other) Rhetoric: How the Way Powerful Institutions Talk Can Devalue and Marginalize Outsider Groups -- Scorn and Imposition—How We Use Language, Consciously or Unconsciously, to Derail Reform -- Conclusion -- Epilogue