I: IDENTITY. Undoing history ; A first volley in the culture wars ; Making the personal political ; The best that has been thought and said ; The rise of theory ; The liberal imagination ; A contagion of disapproval ; An authoritarian underbelly ; Boutique multiculturalism ; A presupposition of incommunicability ; Hyperspecialization ; The trap of relevance ; The time to think ; A neoliberal ethic ; Sounding the alarm
II: INEQUALITY. The great equalizer ; What happened to the American dream? ; Toddler trenches ; School haze ; Educational ecologies ; The college bottleneck ; Diversity in higher ed ; From inequality to divisiveness ; The revenge of the middle class
III: COMMUNITY. Learning to think ; The walrus and the carpenter ; Education and fellow-feeling ; Democracy and the liberal arts ; Media literacy ; Jefferson's words ; What are people for? ; Growing community ; The idea of America.
