Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index.
Prologue: Taking sides -- Pt. 1: Politics all the way down -- At the Federalist Society -- Sauce for the goose -- Of an age and not for all time -- Boutique multiculturalism -- Pt. 2: Fish on the first -- The rhetoric of regret -- Fraught with death -- The dance of theory -- Pt. 3: Reasons for the devout -- Vicki Frost objects -- Mission impossible -- A wolf in reason's clothing -- Playing not to win -- Why we can't all just get along -- Faith before reason -- Pt. 4: Credo -- Beliefs about belief -- Putting theory in its place -- Truth and toilets -- Epilogue: How the right hijacked the magic words