Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements 1Light from Other Minds 2Deconstructing Left and Right: The Case for Bipartisanship 3The President On and Off Base 4Occupy Wall Street and the Question of Leadership 5Manichean Rhetoric and Political Practice 6The Extremes: Two of a Kind 7Tzvetan Todorov's Humanism 8Reason and Politics 9Our Consuming Problem 10Individualism versus Equality 11Billy Budd and the World's Imperfection: A Literary Digression 12Progress and Present-mindedness in the Writing of History Appendix: Charles Savile's Descendant Index

About the Author

Eugene Goodheart