The essays in this volume demonstrate that the debate among conservatives about which principles and practices are most urgently in need of protection is also a debate with the larger liberalism that undergrids the American constitutional order. The essays suggest as well that this larger liberalism, with its bedrock devotion to individual liberty and equality before the law, serves as the common ground on which the contending camps within conservatism—and indeed conservatives in their contentions with progressives—can come together, debate civilly, and discover ways to advance the public good. Full-text PDF versions of each chapter can be accessed below by clicking on the desired chapter title. (PDF files require Adobe Reader. If you do not already have this software installed, click here to download it for free at the Adobe web site.) Copyright © 2004 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  PART I: CLASSICAL CONSERVATISM
• Understanding Traditionalist Conservatism
• Social Conservatism and the New Fusionism
  PART II: LIBERTARIANISM
• The Moral Foundations of Modern Libertarianism
• Libertarianism and Character
  PART III: NEOCONSERVATISM
• The Neoconservative Journey
• Neoconservatism’s Liberal Legacy
• Index