Equality, decadence, and modernity : the collected essays of Stephen J. Tonsor / edited with an introduction by Gregory L. Schneider.

1: Decadence
Decadence past and present
Decadence and the machine
The perception of decadence
2: Equality
A few unequal and preliminary thoughts
Equality in the new testament
The new natural law and the problem of equality
Liberty and equality as absolutes
3: Historiography
History: a revolutionary or conservative discipline?
A fresh start: American history and political order
Freedom and the crisis in historiography
The United States as a "revolutionary society"
4: Intellectual history
Socialism
The use and abuse of myth
Modernity, science, and rationality
The inevitability of tradition
Marxism and modernity
5: Politics
Political idealism and political reality
What is the purpose of politics?
Why I am a republican and a conservative
6: Conservatism
How does the past become the future?
The conservative search for identity
Gnostics, romantics, and conservatives
Elites, community, and the truth: a little story
7: Polemics
Alienation and relevance
The second spring of American conservatism
Why I too am not a neoconservative
8: Tributes
Joseph Ward Swain
Russell Kirk
Henry Regnery.