Description

Renewing America’s Civic Compact addresses the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. The meritocracy, multiculturalism, issues of race, technology, and populist nationalism in American democracy today are some of the issues that have created more tensions to American public life. Chapters address the condition of civil conversation within the university and across American society. This collection then engages debates over the continued relevance and durability of liberal ideas and institutions; whether we have accessible means and resources to channel digital technology more fruitfully for the sake of human achievement and well-being; and how some have endeavored to revitalize the American civic vocation through both scholarly and practical education. Finally, the volume closes with a call to restore civic friendship, properly understood, as the foundation for renewing America’s civic compact.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley

Part I: Diagnosis of the American Malady
Chapter 1: We All Live on Campus Now: Andrew Sullivan
Chapter 2: The Constitution of Knowledge: Jonathan Rauch
Chapter 3: Renewing Civic Education: How to Restore Strategic Competence and Confidence: H.R. McMaster

Part II: Meritocracy, Racial Challenges, and the Populist Response
Chapter 4: Meritocracy, Populism and Worker Power: Michael Lind
Chapter 5: The Inescapable Meritocracy: Rita Koganzon
Chapter 6 Systemic Racism: Defining Terms and Evaluating Evidence: Lara Bazelon
Chapter 7: On the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America: Glenn Loury

Part III: The Case for Liberal Ideas and Institutions
Chapter 8: The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Michael Zuckert
Chapter 9: Truth and Virtue in the Founders' Liberalism: C. Bradley Thompson
Chapter 10: Conservative Democracy Rightly and Wrongly Understood: Daniel Mahoney

Part IV: A Civic Compact for Our Digital Age
Chapter 11: Beyond Information Idolatry

Product details

Published Sep 30 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 258
ISBN 9781666923452
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 4 b/w illustrations;
Dimensions 239 x 158 mm
Series Political Theory for Today
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Carol McNamara

Anthology Editor

Trevor Shelley

Contributor

Lara Bazelon

Contributor

Rita Koganzon

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Michael Lind

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Glenn C. Loury

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Paul Ludwig

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Daniel Mahoney

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Carol McNamara

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Michael Pakaluk

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Pamela Paresky

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Jonathan Rauch

Contributor

Ian Rowe

Contributor

Charles Rubin

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Diana Schaub

Contributor

Trevor Shelley

Contributor

Michael Zuckert

Contributor

Andrew Sullivan

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