TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
1. Two Views of Americanization 6
2. A Friendly Critique of Pure Crunchiness 18
3. Against the Lobotomites: Thoughts on the Bible, Philosophy, and Politics Inspired by Thomas L. Pangle 26
4. The Socratic Philosopher and the American Individual 37
5. Stuck-with-Virtue Conservatism 47
6. McWilliams and the Problem of American Political Education 66
7. Real Men Prove Darwin Wrong Again 78
8. Murray and Brownson 90
9. Toward a Consistent Ethic of Judicial Restraint 108
10. Is the Body Property? 123
11. Modernity and Postmodernity 132
12. Tocqueville at 200 136
13. Where's the Love? 145
14. Tocqueville on the Doctrine of Interest 152
15. Disco and Democracy: Thoughts on Stillman's Film
and Book 168
16. An American Fantasy? Love, Nobility, and Friendship
in Casablanca 195
17. A Story about Nothing: The Two Kinds of Nihilists
and One Kind of Christian in Flannery O'Connor's
Good Country People 207
Index 227