Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

New York: Basic Books, October 1983.

I.

IN THE BEGINNING…

1. Memoirs of a Trotskyist

2. Memoirs of a “Cold Warrior”

 

II.

THE CULTURE OF DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM

3. The Adversary Culture of Intellectuals

4. Pornography, Obscenity, and the Case for Censorship

5. Urban Civilization and Its Discontents

 

III.

THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF NEOCONSERVATISM

6. Confessions of a True, Self-Confessed—Perhaps the Only—”Neoconservative”

7. The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution

8. American Historians and the Democratic Idea

9. The Emergence of Two Republican Parties

10. Socialism: An Obituary for an Idea

11. Machiavelli and the Profanation of Politics

 

IV.

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEOCONSERVATISM

12. Adam Smith and the Spirit of Capitalism

13. Rationalism in Economics

14. Some Personal Reflections on Economic Well-Being and Income Distribution

15. On Corporate Capitalism in America

16. Business Ethics and Economic Man

 

V.

NEOCONSERVATISM AND FOREIGN POLICY

17. Diplomacy vs. Foreign Policy in the United States

18. Our Incoherent Foreign Policy

19. Does NATO Exist?

20. Exorcising the Nuclear Nightmare

21. Key Question: Who Owns the Future?

22. A Letter to the Pentagon

23. “Moral Dilemmas” in Foreign Policy

24. The “Human Rights” Muddle

25. Understanding the Soviet Mafia

 

VI.

RELIGION AND THE JEWS

26. Is Jewish Humor Dead?

27. God and the Psychoanalysts

28. Einstein: The Passion of Pure Reason

29. Christianity, Judaism, and Socialism

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