The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009

New York: Basic Books, 2011.

Foreword: In Memoriam: Irving Kristol, 1920-2009: William Kristol

Introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb

 

I. IN THE BEGINNING . . . : Enquiry

Auden: The Quality of Doubt

A Christian Experiment

Other People’s Nerve

James Burnham’s The Machiavellians

The Moral Critic

 

II. ANCIENTS AND MODERNS

The Philosophers’ Hidden Truth

Niccolo Machiavelli

“… And People Opening Veins in Baths”: Tacitus

 

III. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

“Civil Liberties,” 1952: A Study in Confusion

American Ambiguities: The Jacksonian Persuasion

Republican Virtue versus Servile Institutions

Human Nature and Social Reform

Foundations and the Sin of Pride: The Myth of the Third Sector

The Spirit of ’87

The Welfare State’s Spiritual Crisis

The Two Welfare States

 

IV. THE CULTURE AND COUNTERCULTURE

High, Low, and Modern: Some Thoughts on Popular Culture and Popular Government

What’s Bugging the Students

Vice and Virtue in Las Vegas

Reflections of a Neoconservative

It’s Obscene but Is It Art?

The Way We Were

 

V. CAPITALISM, CONSERVATISM, AND NEOCONSERVATISM

Old Truths and the New Conservatism

What Is a “Neoconservative”?

Toward a “New” Economics?

No Cheers for the Profit Motive

Ideology and Supply-Side Economics

American Conservatism: 1945-1995

The Right Stuff

The Neoconservative Persuasion

 

VI. FOREIGN POLICY AND IDEOLOGY

The Ironies of Neo-Isolationism

Notes on the Yom Kippur War

What’s Wrong with NATO?

International Law and International Lies

“Human Rights”: The Hidden Agenda

Conflicts That Can’t Be Resolved

 

VII. JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

The Myth of the Supra-Human Jew: The Theological Stigma

How Basic is “Basic Judaism”? A Comfortable Religion for an Uncomfortable World

The Political Dilemma of American Jews

Liberalism and American Jews

Christmas, Christians, and Jews

Why Religion Is Good for the Jews

Taking Religious Conservatives Seriously

A Note on Religious Tolerance

On the Political Stupidity of the Jews

 

VIII. MEMOIRS

An Autobiographical Memoir

Forty Good Years

My “Public Interest”

 

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