Part I: Mind vs. Money

1. The Ivory Tower at War

Mind vs. Money
Who Are the "Intellectuals"?
An Accidental Aristocracy
The First Thing We Do, Let's Get
Rid of All the Intellectuals?
An Insoluble Problem?

2. The Three Don'ts

A Very Brief History of Western Intellectuals
The Three Don'ts
The First Don't-The Classical Background
The Second Don't-The Christian Background
The Third Don't-The Democratic Background

3. The Unexpected Honeymoon of Mind and Money, 1730-1830

The Point of Departure
Justifications of Commerce
Why the Honeymoon Began
Why the Honeymoon Ended

Part II: Intellectuals and their Discontents: The Nineteenth Century (1850-1914)

4. How Capitalism Lost the Struggle Over Character

A Fairy Tale
The Self-Made Man
The Hypocrite
Family Values
The Aristocratic Critique of Stupidity
Bohemian vs. Bourgeois: Criticizing a Lifestyle
The Question of Technology
Our Mutual Incomprehension

5. Academic Alternatives to Capitalism

The Babel Project: Building Alternatives to Capitalism
In the Beginning There Was Marx
The Moral Community: Toennies
The Protestant Critique of Capitalism: Veblen
Sweetness and Light, Sturm und Drang:
Arnold and Nietzsche
With a Friend Like This, Who Needs Enemies? -Tocqueville

Part III: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Anti-Capitalist Spirit: The Twentieth Century (1914-2001)

6. War

Why Great Revolutions Did Not Become Rare
Continuity and Change after World War I
Communism: The Red and the Pink
Fascism
Social Catholicism
The New Deal
Why Smart People Persist with Dumb Mistakes

7. Retreat

The Culture Wars
The Myth of Alienation
Aristocratic Reactions: Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, and Foucault
Make Love, Not Money: The Counterculture
The Neoconservatives-A Contradiction within the Intellectual Class?

8. Recent Battles

Anti-Americanism as an Anti-Capitalist Movement
The French Case
The Anti-Globalization Movement
Green vs. Gold
A Digression: Feminism and Capitalism

9. On Intellectuals in Democratic Society

The Hundred Fifty Years War
The Chapter Tocqueville Never Wrote
Capitalism's Moral Culture
Reforming the Intelligentsia
The Games People Play
The Intellectual Limits of Capitalism
General Education
Detente