Posted January 7, 2003

Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics

Introduction to the Claremont Edition

Foreword by Charles H. Percy

1. The Nature and Origin of the American Party System
   
2. Agrarian Virtue and Republican Freedom: A Historical Perspective
   
3. Patriotism and Morality
   
4. "Value Consensus" in Democracy: The Issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
   
5. Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
   
6. Theory and Practice in American Politics
   
7. The Emancipation Proclamation
   
8. On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty
   
9. In Defense of the "Natural Law Thesis"
   
10. The Case Against Political Theory
    

Index

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The Conditions of Freedom: Essays in Political Philosophy

Preface

Introduction to the Claremont Edition

Part I: Essays

1. Leo Strauss: 1899-1973
   
2. What is Politics: An Interpretation of Aristotle's Politics
   
3. The Limits of Politics: An Interpretation of King Lear, Act I, Scene I
   
4. The Virtue of a Nation of Cities: On the Jeffersonian Paradoxes
   
5. Political Obligation and the American Political Tradition
   
6. Reflections on Thoreau and Lincoln: Civil Disobedience and the American Tradition
   
7. What is Equality?: The Declaration of Independence Revisited
   
8. Partly Federal, Partly National: On the Political Theory of the American Civil War
   
9. Crisis of the House Divided: A New Introduction
   
10. Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America
    
11. The Conditions of Freedom
    

Part II: Criticism and Controversy

1. Slavery: A Battle Revisited
   
2. Letters of a Patriot
   
3. Portrait of a Patriot
   
4. Lincoln and the Cause of Freedom
   
5. Reconstruction: Old and New
   
6. The Truth About War
   
7. What about the Dardanelles?
   
8. Amoral America and the Liberal Dilemma
   

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How To Think About the American Revolution

Preface

Introduction to the Claremont Institute Edition

1. Introduction: July 4, 1976
   
2. Equality as a Conservative Principle
   
3. How To Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Celebration
   
4. Equality, Justice, and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford's "The Heresy of Equality"
   

Appendix

Political Philosophy and Honor: The Leo Strauss Dissertation Award

Endnotes

Index

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American Conservatism and the American Founding

Introduction: The Special Meaning of the Declaration of Independence by Charles R. Kesler

1. Another Look at the Declaration
   
2. The 1980 Presidential Election: A Watershed in the Making?
   
3. For Good Government and the Happiness of Mankind: The Moral Majority and the American Founding
   
4. A Conversation with Harry V. Jaffa at Rosary College
   
5. Inventing the Past: Garry Wills's Inventing America and the Pathology of Ideological Scholarship
   
6. On Political Education
   
7. Looking at Mr. Goodlyfe
   
8. In Defense of Political Philosophy: Two Letters to Walter Berns
   
9. The Primacy of the Good: Leo Strauss Remembered
   
10. "In Defense of Political Philosophy" Defended: A Rejoinder to Walter Berns
    
11. The Doughface Dilemma: Or the Invisible Slave in the American Enterprise Institute's Bicentennial
    
12. Willmoore Kendall: Philosopher of Consensus?
    
13. The Madison Legacy: A Reconsideration of the Founder's Intent
    
14. Human Rights and the Crisis of the West
    
15. The Declaration and the Draft
    
16. Dred Scott and the American Regime
    
17. The American Regime and the Only Greater Institution
    

Appendix: Sodomy and the Academy: The Assault on the Family and Morality by "Liberation" Ethics