From union to empire: essays in the Jeffersonian tradition

1. Agrarian conservatism

The Jeffersonian conservative tradition

Citizens or subjects?

Thomas Jefferson, conservative

Jefferson, new and improved

Thomas Jefferson's birthday

Why they hate Jefferson

American counter-revolution

The Virginian roots of American values

Securing the revolution

II. Jeffersonians

John Taylor

George Mason

Nathaniel Macon

Little Jimmy's last hurrah

St. George Tucker

Burkean on the beach

The Jeffersonian democrat rediscovered

Up at the forks of the creek: In search of American populism

George Wallace

Faulkner's Declaration of Independence

III. The lost constitution

What the founders didn't count on

The achievement of M. E. Bradford

The liberty and responsibility of the press

Real majority rule

The electoral college, 2000

By whose consent?

Lani Guinier

10th amendment madness

Unconstitutional

In the beginning

From union to empire

IV. Empire

Global democracy and American tradition

Global democracy and conservatism

The future of American nationalism

Making war

The Lincoln war crimes trial: A history lesson

The American president: From Cincinnatus to Caesar

The consent of the governed

America as idea

V. Imperial irritations

As a city upon a hill

Flag burning

AIDS and public morality

Two prisoners

Congress

Police brutality

Capital punishment

The drug war

Feds in my back yard

The NEH

Abortion

North of the border

Drinking, driving & voting

The princes

Whom the Gods would destroy (Bombing Afghanistan)

VI. Cons and neocons

The conservative identity

Moments in the sun

Treasury of virtue

Contemporary liberalism

The disappearance of conservatism

Pat Buchanan

Murray Rothbard

Russell Kirk

Richard Weaver

James Burnham

Sam Francis

Clinton, Bush et al.

Five minutes with Governor Bush

VI. History and historians

Tocqueville redividus

Historical consciousness

Forrest McDonald

The imperial penman

The banality of banal

The presence of the past

VII. Restoring the republic.