constitutions 72–73See
alsoU.S. Constitution
ancient 12–13
mixed 209–210
corporate law 48
corporatism 73
correspondence theory of
truth 239
Course of Positive Philosophy
(Comte) 68, 237
covenant theology 73–74
Christian Right 56
and civil religion 62
Lincoln and 189
Mayflower Compact
204–205
Pilgrims and 231
Puritans and 248
creationism 74
credit car ds 32
criminal law 30–31
critical theory 74–75, 111
Habermas, founder of
131–132
Horkheimer, revolu-
tionary potential of
146–147
humanist Marxism 203
Marcuse and 200
reification concept and
256
Critique of Dialectical Rea-
son(Sartre) 270
Critique of Pure Reason
(Kant) 169
Critique of the Gotha Pro-
gram(Marx) 178–179
Croce, Benedetto 75–76
Cromwell, Oliver 76
Cuban missile crisis 171
cultism 76–77
cult of personality 14
cultural nihilism 286
culture
as element of social
change 125–126
Herder’s philosophy of
137
Horkheimer’s mass
147
Montesquieu, politics
and 212
multiculturalism
213–214
culture industry 111
Culture Wars(Hunter) 10,
77, 145, 151–152d
Dante, Alghieri 79
Darwinism 14, 74 See also
Social Darwinism
The Death of Outrage: Bill
Clinton and the Assault on
American Ideals(Bennett)
33
Declaration of Indepen-
dence 7, 80, 298
The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire(Gibbon)
122
Defender of the Peace(Mar-
silius of Padua) 201
Defense of the Constitutions
of the Government of the
United States(Adams) 5
degeneration of regimes
232–233
deliberative politics 132
democracy 80–81
Adams opposition to
pure 5
within the church 68,
99, 155, 181–182,
190–191, 240, 245,
309
Dewey’s theories of 84
Diderot’s support of 86
education and 84
elite theory and 92–93
fraternity and 113
Habermas’s theory of
communicative
action 132
Hamilton on 132
justice and 166
Lincoln, slavery and
188–189
Nietzsche and 221
Pilgrims and 231
Plato and 233
polis 234
Protagoras 245
representative 256, 257
Schumpeter’s redefini-
tion of 272
social 101–102, 170,
180, 186, 278
sovereignty of the peo-
ple 281Tocqueville 294
tyranny of the majority
143, 294
utilitarianism and 299
Democracy and Reaction
(Hobhouse) 142
Democracy in America(Toc-
queville) 10, 294
Democratic Party 81–83
Fabianism and 101
feminism and 105
and homosexuality 145
ideology 154
Jacksonian Democracy
161
leftist ideology of 180
liberalism and 10,
86–87, 185–186,
185–186
New Left 219
patronage and 229
populism and 236
progressive philosophy
of 77, 82, 242
property ownership
244
Roosevelt and the New
Deal 264
social democracy and
278
Woodrow Wilson
307–308
Democratic-Republican
Party 5
Department of Education,
U.S. 33
despotism 83 See also
tyranny
The Development of Capital-
ism in Russia(Lenin) 182
Dewey, John 83–84, 239
dialectic 84–85,94, 121,
134
Dialectic of Enlightenment
(Adorno, Horkheimer)
147
Dialogues(Plato) 281
dictatorships 85,86 See
alsotyranny
Machiavelli and 194
of the proletariat 85,
282
Dictionnaire historique et cri-
tique(Bayle) 30
Diderot, Denis 86Diggers 183
Dillon, C. Douglas 171
Discipline and Punish(Fou-
cault) 109–110
discourse ethics, Habermas’s
theory of 132
Discourse on the Constitution
and Government of the Uni-
ted States(Calhoun) 46
Discourse on the Love of Our
Country(Price) 241
Discourses of Davila
(Adams) 5
The Discourses on the First
Ten Books of Titus Livy
(Machiavelli) 194
discrimination 86–87
Disquisition on Government
(Calhoun) 46
dissent 87
diversity 214
The Divine Comedy(Dante)
79
divine law 16–17
Divine Mind 218
divine right of kings 2, 3,
87–88,107–108
domination, Strauss’s
process of 286
Douglass, Frederick 9, 88,
88
drug war, Buckley’s opposi-
tion to 39
Duns Scotus, Johannes
88–89
Durkheim, Émile 89e
Eastern Orthodox political
thought 3, 43, 72
Eastwood, David 91
ecclesiology 91
Eclipse of Reason
(Horkheimer) 147
economics
classical school of 260
Hayek’s idea of sponta-
neous order 133
industrialism 157–158
Keynesian 171–172
King’s reconstruction
174
labor theory of value
164, 177–178,182,
190, 260Index 331