Renewing America’s Civic Compact

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

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