Table of Contents
Introduction Andrew J. Bacevich xiii
First Principles: Three Responses
Conservatism Defined Russell Kirk 5
Notes Toward an Empirical Definition of Conservatism William F. Buckley Jr. 12
The Recrudescent American Conservatism Frank S. Meyer 28
The Fundamentals: Tradition, Religion, Morality, and the Individual
The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900) Henry Adams 47
From "Journalism and the Higher Law" Walter Lippmann 57
Materialism and Idealism in American Life George Santayana 62
From American Individualism Herbert Hoover 75
How It Feels To Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston 84
What I Believe: Rousseau and Religion Irving Babbitt 89
The Choice Before Civilization William Henry Chamberlin 104
Foreword in the Form of a Letter to My Children Whittaker Chambers 119
The Most Precious Heirloom Frank Chodorov 140
E Pluribus Unum: The American Consensus John Courtney Murray 148
From The Conservative Affirmation Willmoore Kendall 163
On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address Harry V. Jaffa 188
The Women's Movement Joan Didion 205
Our Ignorance Allan Bloom 213
Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case For Gay Marriage Andrew Sullivan 228
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference Shelby Steele 233
Can Atheists Be Good Citizens? Richard John Neuhaus 244
From The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Michael Novak 256
The Soul of Man under Secularism Christopher Lasch 278
Leadership Failure and the Loyalty Trap Glenn Loury 291
Dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges Antonin Scalia 303
Liberty and Power: The State and the Free Market
From The State Randolph Bourne 313
From Our Enemy, The State Albert Jay Nock 337
The Great Stereopticon Richard Weaver 347
From The Road Ahead John T. Flynn 364
Capitalism and Freedom Milton Freedman 369
"When Virtue Loses All Her Loveliness": Some Reflections on Capitalism and "the Free Society" Irving Kristol 383
From For a New Liberty Murray Rothbard 397
Unsustainable Liberalism Patrick Deneen 415
The Ties that Bind: The Local and Familiar
Reconstructed but Unregenerate John Crowe Ransom 431
The Loss of Community Robert Nisbet 450
From The Southern Tradition Eugene Genovese 468
Local Knowledge in the Age of Information Wendell Berry 481
The Exceptional Nation: America and the World
The Strenuous Life Theodore Roosevelt 495
Speech in the U.S. Senate on the League of Nations Henry Cabot Lodge 506
Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels: An Estimate of American Foreign Policy Charles Beard 534
From The Struggle for the World James Burnham 558
From A Foreign Policy for Americans Robert A. Taft 574
From The Irony of American History Reinhold Niebuhr 584
Address to Members of Parliament Ronald Reagan 590
From The Irony of Manifest Destiny William Pfaff 602
Sources and Acknowledgments 613
Index 617