Introduction: The insurrectionists / Franklin Foer
1910s. The duty of harsh criticism / Rebecca West
In a schoolroom / Randolph S. Bourne
Life is cheap / Walter Lippmann
The future of pacifism / John Dewey
1920s. Meditation in E minor / H.L. Mencken
The eclipse of progressivism / Herbert Croly
Soviet Russia / John Maynard Keynes
In Dedham Jail: a visit to Sacco and Vanzetti / Bruce Bliven
The birth-control raid / Margaret Sanger
1930s. Progress and poverty / Edmund Wilson
Out of the Red with Roosevelt / John Dos Passos
The future of democracy / Benedetto Croce
1940s. The corruption of liberalism / Lewis Mumford
Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Virginia Woolf
Young man with a horn again / Otis Ferguson
The art of translation / Vladimir Nabokov
"In every voice, in every ban" / Alfred Kazin
Politics and the English language / George Orwell
1950s. Sigmund Freud / W.H. Auden
Indo-China / Graham Greene
Our stake in the state of Israel / Reinhold Niebuhr
Positive thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue / Philip Roth
Arthur Miller's conscience / Richard Rovere
1960s. Candidate on the eve: liberalism without tears / James MacGregor Burns
A jolly good Fellini / Stanley Kaufman
The march on Washington / Murray Kempton
The war on poverty / Gunnar Myrdal
Movie brutalists / Pauline Kael
1970s. Power and powerlessness: decline of democratic government / Hans J. Morgenthau
Random murder: the new terrorists / Michale Walzer
The liberal's dilemma / Daniel P. Moynihan
Protégé power / Nicholas Lemann
1980s. The great Carter mystery / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Liberals and deficits / Michael Kinsley
Tory days / Henry Fairlie
Mr. Democrat / Michael Kinsley
Here comes the groom: a (conservative) case for gay marriage / Andrew Sullivan
1990s. The value of the canon / Irving Howe
Highway to hell / Michael Kelly
The child monarch / Hendrik Hertzberg
After memory / Leon Wieseltier
Beyond words / Fouad Ajami
The griz / Michael Lewis
Les très riches heures de Martha Stewart / Margaret Talbot
He is finished / James Wood
2000s. Disgrace / Jeffrey Rosen
Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting / Jed Perl
Mad about you: the case for Bush hatred / Jonathan Chait
The limited circle is pure / Zadie Smith
A fighting faith / Peter Beinart
American Adam / John B. Judis
The idea of ideas / Leon Wieseltier
Afterword: Mind without silos: the next hundred years / Chris Hughes.