Arthur Melzer is professor of political science at Michigan State University. Robert Kraynak is professor of political science at Colgate University.

This collection of essays honoring Werner J. Dannhauser addresses the timeless issue_lately become very timely_of the rivalry between reason and religion, especially as both relate to politics. The essays_by such scholars as Francis Fukuyama, Walter Berns, Jeremy Rabkin, and Ralph Lerner_range widely over Western intellectual history, from classical philosophy and ancient Israel, to the medieval period and the Renaissance, to Nietzsche and contemporary neoconservative thought.

Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 I Reason: The Basis of Society or a Danger to Society? Chapter 5 1 On the Inherent Tension between Reason and Society Chapter 6 2 Dispersal by Design: The Author's Choice Chapter 7 3 Liberalism Before Disenchantment: Why Jean Bodin Advocated Witch-Hunting Chapter 8 4 Nietzsche and the Pre-Socratics Chapter 9 5 The Death of God and the Eternal Feminine Part 10 II Faith: The Role of Religion in Political Authority Chapter 11 6 Christianity and American Democracy: Harmony or Hostility? Chapter 12 7 Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and the Jewish Religion Chapter 13 8 Preserving the Third Temple: Geopolitics and Israel's Permanent Crisis Part 14 II Politics: Constitutionalism and Foreign Policy in Liberal Democracies Chapter 15 9 A Brief History of Neo-Conservative Foreign Policy Chapter 16 10 The Rule of Law and the European Union Chapter 17 11 Ancients and Moderns: The Emergence of Modern Constitutionalism