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Introduction : out of many, one : diversity as conformity / Bradley C.S. Watson -- Orthodoxies old and new -- The new politics of the American public orthodoxy / Kenneth L. Grasso -- The diversity regime / Bruce P. Frohnen -- Christ, Caesar, and self : a Pauline proposal for understanding the paradoxical call for statist coercion and unfettered autonomy / Jeffrey J. Ventrella -- Constitutional conundrums -- Conscience, conformity, and religious diversity in the American founding / Vincent Phillip Munoz -- Freedom without exceptions : a new jurisprudence of religious liberty / Matthew J. Franck -- Freedom, tolerance, and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) laws / Ryan T. Anderson -- Diversity and conformity in higher education -- The assault upon individual liberty, individual responsibility, and private conscience / Alan Charles Kors -- Diversity and liberal education / Joseph M. Knippenberg -- Diversity hokum : the 'disappearing' of George S. Schuyler / Mary Grabar.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel, The First Circle, is studied to discern its message concerning the nature of political science, especially the relationship of modern scientific development to political functions. The book shows how modern development has allowed tyranny to reach new limits. It has provided the tools that, combined with uncompromising vision, can make the application of cruelty reach a scale never before thought possible. Josef Stalin is shown by Solzhenitsyn to be a unique tyrant in the sense that he does not use his power for self-gratification in a material sense, but is obsessed with his role in changing world history. The novel's central characters relate to modern scientific rationality in revealing ways, as they, in the first circle, or the sharashka, consist of bright scientific minds, who are too valuable to eliminate, yet, in their opposition or departure from the communist regime, deserve punishment within the technical institute staffed by prisoners. Solzhenitsyn argues the need for a deep Socratic questioning & an Aristotelian idea of morality & philosophy in the application of political rationale. L. A. Hoffman

The author argues that Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Kant, and Nietzsche each contribute to the contemporary understanding of the warrior and his morality. However, none presents what we take to be a complete picture. Our views are a blend of classical and modern elements, and these views change and tend to emphasize various components of classical or modern theory depending on our level of optimism, or cynicism, with respect to the role of the United States in the world order. The article makes the case that by examining the Western ethical tradition as a whole, we will have a more comprehensive understanding of the potential virtues and vices of the warrior morality.