Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Introduction xv
1 The Founders' Epistemological Assertion 1
They Knew What Can Be Known
2 The Progressives' Revision 32
An Emancipation (from Natural Rights) Proclamation
3 Progressive's Institutional Consequences 102
The Presidency Triumphant, The Administrative State Rampant, Congress Dormant
4 The Judicial Supervision of Democracy 148
Difficulties with the "Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty"
5 Political Economy 216
Rescuing the Great Enrichment from the Fatal Conceit
6 Culture and Opportunity 299
The Scissors that Shredded Old Convictions
7 The Aims of Education 352
Talents for Praising and for Pessimism
8 Going Abroad 405
A Creedal Nation in a World on Probation
9 Welcoming Whirl 457
Conservatism Without Theism
10 Borne Back 512
The Quest for a Useable Past
Acknowledgments 539
Select Bibliography 541
Notes 561
Index 585