Introduction: Speaking for the people in culture wars-era America
The ordinary American as a neoconservative concept and moral authority ; Neoconservatives and populist persuasion ; The neoconservative culture wars
The coming of the neoconservative common man
James Q. Wilson and the rehabilitation of emotions
Family values as moral intuitions: neoconservatives and the war over the family
Moral sentiments of the Black underclass: race in the neoconservative moral imagination
Retributive sentiments and criminal justice: James Q. Wilson on crime and punishment
Elite multiculturalism and the spontaneous morality of everyday people: Francis Fukuyama's culture wars
Epilogue: neoconservative culture warriors and the boundaries of the people.