What holds America together in the 1990s? Many of our old public assumptions about shared experience, respect for the rule of law and limited government, and, ultimately, a common morality and basic religious outlook seem shaken today.

This volume explores the causes and consequences of our present predicament and also offers constructive solutions. It examines multiculturalist movements, recent court decisions and interpretations of the Constitution, religious questions, educational breakdown, racial and ethnic issues, and immigration.

Contributors: Michael Barone, Glenn C. Loury, Stanley Crouch, Mark Helprin, Harvey C. Mansfield, Terry Eastland, George Weigel, Robert Wuthnow, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Martha Bayles, Peter Skerry, John O'Sullivan, and twelve others.