Description:Essays discuss the history of conservatism, capitalism the New Right, political science, the welfare state, civil rights, foreign policy, Vietnam, communism, and leadership
The idea of conservatism / Russell Kirk --
Burke and radical freedom / Jeffrey Hart --
The southern tradition at bay / Richard M. Weaver --
Equality and the American political tradition / Willmoore Kendall --
Equality as a conservative principle / Harry V. Jaffa --
Anarchist's progress / Albert Jay Nock --
Capitalism and freedom / Milton Friedman --
The new conservatism and the state / Frank S. Meyer --
On the nature of civil and religious liberty / Harry V. Jaffa --
Freedom, reason, and tradition / Friedrich A. Hayek --
Gnosticism--
the nature of modernity / Eric Voegelin --
The new political science / Leo Strauss --
The breakdown of the Keynesian model / Paul Craig Roberts --
A conservative welfare state / George F. Will --
The constraints on helping / Charles Murray --
In defense of the American party system / Edward C. Banfield --
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and the question of judicial activism --
The civil rights vision : from equal opportunity to "affirmative action" / Thomas Sowell --
The abortion culture / Joseph Sobran --
The communist mind / Gerhart Niemeyer --
Communism : the struggle for the world / James Burnham --
Vietnam and the crisis of containment / Norman Podhoretz --
Dictatorships and double standards / Jeane Kirkpatrick --
The direct glance / Whittaker Chambers --
Isaiah's job / Albert Jay Nock.