Renewing America’s Civic Compact

Carol McNamara is the senior director of the Center for Constitutional Design at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Trevor Shelley is Associate Director of Graduate Studies and Instructor at the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University

• Introduction: Carol McNamara and Trevor ShelleyPart I: Diagnosis of the American MaladyChapter 1: We All Live on Campus Now: Andrew SullivanChapter 2: The Constitution of Knowledge: Jonathan RauchChapter 3: Renewing Civic Education: How to Restore Strategic Competence and Confidence: H.R. McMasterPart II: Meritocracy, Racial Challenges, and the Populist ResponseChapter 4: Meritocracy, Populism and Worker Power: Michael LindChapter 5: The Inescapable Meritocracy: Rita KoganzonChapter 6 Systemic Racism: Defining Terms and Evaluating Evidence: Lara BazelonChapter 7: On the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America: Glenn LouryPart III: The Case for Liberal Ideas and InstitutionsChapter 8: The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Michael ZuckertChapter 9: Truth and Virtue in the Founders’ Liberalism: C. Bradley ThompsonChapter 10: Conservative Democracy Rightly and Wrongly Understood: Daniel MahoneyPart IV: A Civic Compact for Our Digital AgeChapter 11: Beyond Information Idolatry

“Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelly have assembled a collection of insightful and penetrating essays by some of our leading thinkers, treating virtually every aspect of the current condition of American civic life. The reader is left with a cautious but genuine sense of hope.”