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The essays in this volume address the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. It will be of interest to scholars of American history and politics, to thoughtful citizens and leaders facing present challenges, and to students and future Americans confronting the ongoing challenges of our times.
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Introduction: Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley
Part I: Diagnosis of the American Malady
Chapter 1: We All Live on Campus Now: Andrew Sullivan
Chapter 2: The Constitution of Knowledge: Jonathan Rauch
Chapter 3: Renewing Civic Education: How to Restore Strategic Competence and Confidence: H.R. McMaster
Part II: Meritocracy, Racial Challenges, and the Populist Response
Chapter 4: Meritocracy, Populism and Worker Power: Michael Lind
Chapter 5: The Inescapable Meritocracy: Rita Koganzon
Chapter 6 Systemic Racism: Defining Terms and Evaluating Evidence: Lara Bazelon
Chapter 7: On the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America: Glenn Loury
Part III: The Case for Liberal Ideas and Institutions
Chapter 8: The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Michael Zuckert
Chapter 9: Truth and Virtue in the Founders' Liberalism: C. Bradley Thompson
Chapter 10: Conservative Democracy Rightly and Wrongly Understood: Daniel Mahoney
Part IV: A Civic Compact for Our Digital Age
Chapter 11: Beyond Information Idolatry: A Civic Compact for a Technoscientific Age: J. Benjamin Hurlbut
Chapter 12: Social Media and The Prestige Economy Trap: Buying Allies, Losing Friends, and the Audience Effect: Pamela Paresky
Chapter 13: Steamboat or Showboat? Space, Wealth, and the American Way: Charles Rubin
Part V: Cultivating Our Civic Vocation and Contributing to the Common Good
Chapter 14: Empowering the Rising Generation to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative: Ian Rowe
Chapter 15: Civics at Work: Defending Democratic Institutions: Suzanne Spaulding
Part VI: Civic Friendship
Chapter 16: Civic Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle: Michael Pakaluk
Chapter 17: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: Neighborly Citizens of a Common Country: Diana Schaub
Chapter 18: How Civic Friendship is a Fact not an Ideal, and How it Explains Our Present Moment: Paul Ludwig
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Carol McNamara is the senior director of the Center for Constitutional Design at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
Trevor Shelley is Associate Director of Graduate Studies and Instructor at the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University
