Decadence past and present
Decadence and the machine
The perception of decadence
A few unequal and preliminary thoughts
Equality in the new testament
The new natural law and the problem of equality
Liberty and equality as absolutes
History: a revolutionary or conservative discipline?
A fresh start: American history and political order
Freedom and the crisis in historiography
The United States as a "revolutionary society"
The use and abuse of myth
Modernity, science, and rationality
The inevitability of tradition
Political idealism and political reality
What is the purpose of politics?
Why I am a republican and a conservative
How does the past become the future?
The conservative search for identity
Gnostics, romantics, and conservatives
Elites, community, and the truth: a little story
The second spring of American conservatism
Why I too am not a neoconservative