Cycles of American Political Thought

[01] America: The philosophical experiment [02] Historical baggage [03] Theoretical baggage [04] A Puritan beginning [05] Expansion and individualism [06] The revolutionary context [07] The road to the Declaration of Independence [08] A "natural" revolutionary: Thomas Paine [09] The unconscious dialectic of Crevecoeur [10] John Adams: "Constitutionalist" [11] A political constitution [12] A philosophical constitution [13] A philosophical constitution: Structure [14] A philosophical constitution: Interpretation [15] Disorganized losers: The anti-federalists [16] The "genius" of Thomas Jefferson [17] Jacksonian democracy: The "people" extended [18] Iconoclastic individualism: Thoreau [19] Inclusionist stirrings: Douglass and Stanton [20] The organic socialism of Brownson [21] American Feudalism: The vision of Fitzhugh [22] Constitutionalizing the slave class [23] Lincoln's reconstitution of America [24] Equality in the law and in practice [25] Social Darwinism and economic laissez-faire [26] Looking backward, looking forward [27] Teddy Roosevelt and progressivism [28] Supreme Court and laissez-faire [29] The women's movement and the 19th amendment [30] Eugene V. Debs and working-class socialism [31] Hamiltonian means for Jeffersonian ends [32] FDR, the New Deal, and the Supreme Court [33] The racial revolution [34] The new egalitarianism and freedom [35] The Reagan revolution [36] Cycles of American political conversations