Foreword / William E. Simon, Jr.
Introduction / Brian C. Anderson
The politics and economics of decline
The beholden state / Steven Malanga
The big-spending, high-taxing, lousy-services paradigm / William Voegeli
The golden state's war on itself / Joel Kotkin
Cali to business : get out! / Steven Malanga
The long stall / Wendell Cox
The pension fund that ate California / Steven Malanga
Flatten taxes! / Arthur B. Laffer
The radical reform that California needs / Troy Senik
The urban fiscal crisis
Lost Angeles / Joel Kotkin
How the road to bell was paved / William Voegeli
Broken windows, broken city / Steven Greenhut
Public order
The reclamation of skid row / Heather Mac Donald
The LAPD remade / John Buntin
The sidewalks of San Francisco / Heather Mac Donald
Of energy and environment
A crude awakening / Tom Gray
The water wars / Victor Davis Hanson
Immigration dilemmas
The rainbow coalition evaporates / Steven Malanga
The demographic revolution / Heather Mac Donald
Education
The worst union in America / Troy Senik
The bilingual ban that worked / Heather Mac Donald
The union's occupation / Ben Boychuk
Triggering school reform in California / Ben Boychuk
Grading the teachers / Larry Sand
UC two / Heather Mac Donald
The culture
The lost art of war / Andrew Klavan
Radical graffiti chic / Heather Mac Donald
Tom Wolfe's California / Michael Anton
Keep hope alive
The silicon lining / Guy Sorman
California, here we stay / Victor Davis Hanson.