{"product_id":"renewing-america-s-civic-compact-9781666923452","title":"Renewing America’s Civic Compact","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenewing America’s Civic Compact addresses the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. The meritocracy, multiculturalism, issues of race, technology, and populist nationalism in American democracy today are some of the issues that have created more tensions to American public life. Chapters address the condition of civil conversation within the university and across American society. This collection then engages debates over the continued relevance and durability of liberal ideas and institutions; whether we have accessible means and resources to channel digital technology more fruitfully for the sake of human achievement and well-being; and how some have endeavored to revitalize the American civic vocation through both scholarly and practical education. Finally, the volume closes with a call to restore civic friendship, properly understood, as the foundation for renewing America’s civic compact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Diagnosis of the American Malady\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: We All Live on Campus Now: Andrew Sullivan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Constitution of Knowledge: Jonathan Rauch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Renewing Civic Education: How to Restore Strategic Competence and Confidence: H.R. McMaster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Meritocracy, Racial Challenges, and the Populist Response\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Meritocracy, Populism and Worker Power: Michael Lind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Inescapable Meritocracy: Rita Koganzon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Systemic Racism: Defining Terms and Evaluating Evidence: Lara Bazelon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: On the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America: Glenn Loury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: The Case for Liberal Ideas and Institutions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Michael Zuckert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Truth and Virtue in the Founders’ Liberalism: C. Bradley Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Conservative Democracy Rightly and Wrongly Understood: Daniel Mahoney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: A Civic Compact for Our Digital Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Beyond Information Idolatry: A Civic Compact for a Technoscientific Age: J. Benjamin Hurlbut\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Social Media and The Prestige Economy Trap: Buying Allies, Losing Friends, and the Audience Effect: Pamela Paresky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Steamboat or Showboat? Space, Wealth, and the American Way: Charles Rubin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: Cultivating Our Civic Vocation and Contributing to the Common Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Empowering the Rising Generation to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative: Ian Rowe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Civics at Work: Defending Democratic Institutions: Suzanne Spaulding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VI: Civic Friendship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Civic Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle: Michael Pakaluk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: Neighborly Citizens of a Common Country: Diana Schaub\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: How Civic Friendship is a Fact not an Ideal, and How it Explains Our Present Moment: Paul Ludwig\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042021998935,"sku":"9781666923452","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666923452.jpg?v=1750952665","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/renewing-america-s-civic-compact-9781666923452","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}