From Simon & Schuster, Hot Topics is Daniel Starer's exploration of everything you ever wanted to know about the fifty major controversies everyone pretends to know all about. Hot Topics asks readers just controversial questions as: Does porn incite violence against women? Is welfare a ticket to permanent poverty? Is euthanasia a thread to the poor and infirm? And why does the military fear gay soldiers? Daniel Starer is the author of Hot Topics, a Simon & Schuster book.