The age of American unreason

The way we live now : just us folks

The way we lived then : intellect and ignorance in a young nation

Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars

Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers

Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight

Blaming it on the sixties

Legacies : youth culture and celebrity culture

The new old-time religion

Junk thought

The culture of distraction

Public life : defining dumbness downward

Conclusion: Cultural conservation.