Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. NOTE ON SOURCES xi
5. INTRODUCTION The Philosopher and His Country 1
6. I POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY
7. 1 WHO ARE WE? 19
8. 2 DEMOCRACY AND PHILOSOPHY 34
9. 3 DEWEY AND POSNER ON PRAGMATISM AND MORAL PROGRESS 49
10. 4 RETHINKING DEMOCRACY 65
11. 5 FIRST PROJECTS, THEN PRINCIPLES 71
12. II AMERICAN POLITICS
13. 6 DOES BEING AN AMERICAN GIVE ONE A MORAL IDENTITY? 80
14. 7 DEMONIZING THE ACADEMY 90
15. 8 AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND THE HOPE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 97
16. 9 THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE POOR 119
17. 10 CAN AMERICAN EGALITARIANISM SURVIVE A GLOBALIZED ECONOMY? 128
18. 11 BACK TO CLASS POLITICS 138
19. 12 MAKING THE RICH RICHER 146
20. 13 LOOKING BACKWARDS FROM THE YEAR 2096 149
21. III GLOBAL POLITICS
22. 14 THE UNPREDICTABLE AMERICAN EMPIRE 159
23. 15 POST-DEMOCRACY 178
24. 16 HUMILIATION OR SOLIDARITY? 187
25. 17 HALF A MILLION BLUE HELMETS? 195
26. 18 A QUEASY AGNOSTICISM 201
27. AFTERWORD Intellectuals and the Millennium 208
28. NOTES 215
29. INDEX 223