Foreword
America: Are we losing our mind? / Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow
Introduction
The knowledge requirement: what every American needs to know / E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Part one
States of mind: indicators of intellectual and cognitive decline. The troubling trend of cultural IQ / Marl Bauerlein
Biblical literacy matters / Daniel L. Dreisbach
Why Johnny and Joanie can't write, revisited / Gerald Graff
College graduates: satisfies, but adrift / Richard Arum
Anatomy of an epidemic / Robert Whitaker
Part two
Personal and cognitive habits/interests. A wired nation tunes out the news / David T.Z. Mindich
Catching our eye : the alluring fallacy of knowing at a glance / Maggie Jackson
The rise of the self and the decline of intellectual and civic interest / Jean M. Twenge
Has internet-fueled conspiracy-mongering crested? / Jonathan Kay
Part three
National consequences. Dependency in America: American exceptionalism and the entitlement state / Nicholas Eberstadt
Political ignorance in America / Ilya Somin
In defense of difficulty: how the decline of the ideal of seriousness has dulled democracy in the name of phony populism / Steve Wasserman
We live in the age of feelings / Dennis Prager
How colleges create the "expectation of confirmation" / Greg Lukianoff
The new antinomian attitude / R.R. Reno.