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| Preface | |
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| Ancient Greece: Love of Wisdom and Beauty | |
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| Laws that cannot be amended | |
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| Athens: Better than the rest | |
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| Father, not mother | |
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| The Greek Isles effect | |
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| Tradition and the natural law | |
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| Athenian relativists | |
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| Beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder | |
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| The universal Good | |
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| The State and the end of man | |
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| Rome: An Empire of Tradition and Patriarchy | |
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| Respecting your elders | |
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| Father knows best | |
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| Tradition's wisdom vs. democracy's fickleness | |
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| Peace through strength | |
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| The real reason Rome fell | |
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| Israel: How God Changed the World | |
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| A God above nature, not a nature god | |
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| Not a political god, but the King of kings | |
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| Knowing God yields science | |
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| They that humble themselves shall be exalted | |
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| A thousand years are as a day | |
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| Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews | |
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| The peace of God that passeth understanding | |
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| The Early Church: Charity and Tolerance Are Born | |
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| How Christianity saved the West | |
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| Christianity brings equality and tolerance | |
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| The State, that pagan god | |
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| How Christians elevated culture | |
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| The truth about heretics | |
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| The Good News brings charity | |
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| The High Middle Ages: The Bright Ages | |
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| Islam vs. civilization | |
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| Warmer is better-someone tell Al Gore | |
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| Ruggedly alive | |
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| The Bright Ages: Life in the cathedrals | |
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| Drama's rebirth: Another fruit of Christianity | |
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| PC myth: The Middle Ages were the Dark Ages | |
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| When love and nature were richer | |
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| PC trope: Dancing angels and pinheads | |
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| Before PC: When intellectual curiosity could thrive | |
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| The Renaissance: It's Not What You Think | |
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| The PC myths about the Renaissance | |
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| Is there a nature in this man? | |
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| Honoring the past | |
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| Shakespeare on his knees | |
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| Where the Renaissance went wrong: Undermining authority | |
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| The Enlightenment: Liberty and Tyranny | |
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| The will enslaved | |
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| "Enlightenment" yields tyranny | |
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| Ecrasez l'infame! | |
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| The Pilgrim Fathers | |
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| Conservative Founders? | |
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| America's forgotten models: Rome and Athens | |
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| Saving reason from itself | |
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| Rousseau and the State | |
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| Samuel Johnson | |
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| The Nineteenth Century: Man Is a God; Man Is a Beast | |
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| The Romantics' new religion: Nature | |
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| Worshipping man | |
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| What the Industrial Revolution wrought | |
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| Is there such a thing as bad art? | |
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| Nietzsche: The honest atheist | |
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| Conservative champions of human dignity | |
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| The Twentieth Century: A Century of Blood | |
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| Walter Mitty, rugged individual | |
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| The empire strikes back | |
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| The health of the State, the poverty of the soul | |
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| Art from the people; Art against the people | |
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| Science without knowledge | |
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| The Pill's bitter effects | |
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| History can restore us | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |