Through their profiles of conservative opinion leaders, these scholars offer even-handed, critical examinations not only of the philosophies and influence of these leaders, but also of the movement they helped define.

Preface -- Introduction: Conservatism After Reagan -- Conservatism and Tradition -- George F. Will's "Tory" Conservatism -- Russell Kirk: The Conservatism of Tradition -- William F. Buckley, Jr.: Conservatism with Class -- Edward Banfield: Taming the Spirit of Modern Progressivism -- C. Everett Koop: Abortion, AIDS and American Conservatism -- The Neoconservative Movement -- Irving Kristol's Neoconservatism -- Norman Podhoretz's Polemical Commentaries -- Jeane Kirkpatrick's Public Philosophy and Rhetoric -- Capitalism and Economics -- Milton Friedman and the Recovery of Liberalism -- Michael Novak: On Democratic Capitalism and the Things That Are Caesar's -- Foreign Affairs -- Edward Luttwak and Strategy in the 1980s -- Richard Pipes: Conservatives and the Russian Empire -- Constitutional Interpretation -- James Jackson Kilpatrick: Southern Conservative -- Language and the Limits of Judging: Chief Justice Rehnquist's Jurisprudence of Common Sense