Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
Introduction xxiii
Part I The Political Economy of the Postwar Order
1 John Maynard Keynes and the Collapse of the Old Order 3
2 The Keynesian Revolution in Political Economy 19
3 The New Deal Metaphor 51
4 American Capitalism and the 'Inequality Crisis' 61
5 America's Fourth. Revolution 81
Part II Liberalism and Conservatism
6 Liberalism at High Tide 107
7 Conservative Nation 138
8 Is Conservatism Dead? 151
9 Is Liberalism Dead? 163
10 Investing in Conservative Ideas 175
Part III The Kennedy Legend and the Liberal Ideal
11 The Kennedy Legend 197
12 JFK & Camelot 225
13 Revisiting the Kennedy Assassination after Fifty Years 231
14 Was JFK a Conservative? 251
Part IV The Politics of Higher Education
15 The Left University 261
16 Reflections on The Closing of the American Mind 287
17 What's Wrong with Our Universities? 301
18 Columbia Beats Harvard 321
19 Liberalism versus Humanism 335
Epilogue 349
Acknowledgments 359
Notes 361
Index 371