CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I
REPLACING A FAILED PHILOSOPHY

1.America the Practical

2.The Fixation on Correctness

3.Back to Basics: Allocate Scope of Responsibility

4.How Correctness Causes Failure and Alienation

5.Forty Years of Marginal Reforms

6.Unworkable Political Ideologies

PART II
FOUR PRINCIPLES FOR PRACTICAL GOVERNMENT

7.Give Responsibility to Identifiable People

8.Restore Accountability to Public Culture

9.Governing Institutions Must Govern

10.Revive the Moral Mandate

11.Profile of a Practical Society

12.Who Has Responsibility for Change?

AppendixTen Principles for a Practical Society

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index