Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought

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.