The main principle of selection for this third anniversary anthology seems to be

favorite passages that somehow didn't make it into one of the first two. So we have Margaret Heckler arguing with Phyllis Schlafly: MH: "In Alabama, if [a man kills his wife] in the act of adultery, he would then be indicted for the crime of manslaughter; but she, in the opposite situation, would be indicted for the crime of murder. It's a double standard." PS: "And for this we should make our young women subject to the draft?" Or Tom Wolfe: "If you ever have a preposterous statement to make, and I offer this as a suggestion to anyone who has something they know to be preposterous they have to get off, say it in five words or less, because we're always used to five-word sentences as being the gospel truth." The final "persuader" in this hour uses a different medium: Rosalyn Tureck, the piano (with the assistance of Johann Sebastian Bach).