Stephen Cox is professor of literature and director of the Humanities Program at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He is the author of The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America, a biography published by Transaction; Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's Thought; American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution; and The Titanic Story.

• IntroductionA Note on the TextAbbreviations and ReferencesPeople MentionedPart I. Essays and Reviews1. The True Individualist: Thoreau2. The Reformer as Tyrant3. What Is Known as a Practical Man4. The Achievement of the Wright Brothers5. American Concepts6. But Is It True?7. What Went Wrong8. The Devolution of America9. AQuestion of Privilege10. Save Us, at Least, from Boredom11. The Nobel Prize in Politics12. The Culture of Communism13. Freedom and Control14. Whose Agent Is He?15. Monkey-gland Economics16. The Elusive Law of Wages17. The Man with One Idea18. What Do They Do All Day?19. Adventures in Biology and Bunk20. The Riddle of Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott Decision21. Has the World Grown Smaller?22. A Man of Destiny23. Learning to Read: Child's Play24. What the Christmas Story MeansPart II. Letters25. Letters to 194026. Letters, 1940–194927. Letters, 1950 and AfterIndex

"If Cox's main goal was to disclose the inner workings of a writer by presenting her compositions, or allowing a true libertarian to speak, or by arranging the collection in such a methodical way that he draws us into the conversations, he succeeds masterfully." - Libertarian Papers, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2016