The essential neoconservative reader / edited by Mark Gerson ; foreword by James Q. Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

My Negro problem.. and ours / Norman Podhoretz -- The Negro family : the case for national action / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- The campus crucible : student politics and the university / Nathan Glazer -- A letter to the young (and to their parents) (February 1975) / Midge Decter -- Government and the people / Aaron Wildavsky -- Speech before the United Nations in response to "Zionism is racism" / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- "Why virtue loses all her loveliness": some reflections on capitalism and "the free society" / Irving Kristol -- From The spirit of democratic capitalism / Michael Novak -- Moral sources of capitalism / George Gilder -- Dictatorships and double standards / Jeane Kirkpatrick -- The delegitimation of Israel / Ruth Wisse -- Human nature and social reform / Irving Kristol -- From To empower people : the role of mediating structures in public policy / Richard John Neuhaus and Peter Berger -- Affirmative action : a worldwide disaster / Thomas Sowell -- A conservative welfare state / Irving Kristol -- The rediscovery of character : private virtue and public policy / James Q. Wilson -- Pornography, obscenity, and the case for censorship / Irving Kristol -- Broken windows : the police and neighborhood safety / James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling -- Regarding daughters and sisters : The rape of Dinah / Leon R. Kass -- Defining deviancy down / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- Defining deviancy up / Charles Krauthammer -- A new order of religious freedom / Richard John Neuhaus -- Christian conviction and democratic etiquette / George Weigel -- A de-moralized society : the British/American experience / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- The politics of liberty, the sociology of virtue / William Kristol.