Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Politics of Poetry -- 2 Liberty and Rule of Law in Czechoslovakia and East- Central Europe -- 3 The Politics of Truth -- 4 Philosophical and Religious Dimensions of the American Founding -- 5 Religious Liberty and Religion in the American Founding -- 6 Sir John Fortescue asPolitical Philosopher -- 7 American Religion and Higher Law -- 8 The Crisis of Civic Consciousness Nihilism and Resistance -- 9 Eric Voegelin a Conservative? -- 10 Voegelin's Philosophy of History and Human Affairs -- Notes -- Index.