Contents

The Dangers of Oligarchy

From Civilization to Manipulation:
The Discrediting and
Replacement of the Western Elite,  5
Claes G. Ryn

Condorcet and the
Logic of Technocracy,  23
Gorman Beauchamp

The Moral Hazard
of Modern Banking,  33
Brian Patrick Mitchell

Shackling the Imagination:
Education for Virtue
in Plato and Rousseau,  40
Patricia M. Lines

Altruism and the Art of Writing:
Plato, Cicero, and Leo Strauss,  69
William H. F. Altman

Being ‘Other Cheeky’: Moral Hazard
and the Thought of Stanley Hauerwas,  99
Jeffrey Polet

Progressive Change in
Emerson’s ‘The Conservative,’  125
Daniel M. Savage

To Dreamworld and Back:
A Movie Out of the Ordinary,  143
Claes G. Ryn

Lovers,   151
A Poem by John Rees Moore

William Dean Howells’s
America and What Went Wrong,  152
Mark G. Malvasi

Butterfield as Historian:
Objectivity Over Partisanship,  162
John M. Vella

Freedom and the Family:
The Family Crisis and the
Future of Western Civilization,  168
Stephen Baskerville

Quantification and Intelligence
Testing: A Reassessment,  185
Richard J. Bishirjian