Karl Marx and the tradition of western political thought ; The broken thread of tradition ; The modern challenge to tradition -- The great tradition ; Law and power ; Ruling and being ruled -- Authority in the twentieth century -- Letter to Robert M. Hutchins -- The Hungarian revolution and totalitarian imperialism -- Totalitarianism -- Culture and politics -- Challenges to traditional ethics : a response to Michael Polanyi -- Reflections on the 1960 national conventions : Kennedy vs. Nixon -- Action and the "pursuit of happiness" -- Freedom and politics, a lecture -- The cold war and the west -- Nation-state and democracy -- Kennedy and after -- Nathalie Sarraute -- "As if speaking to a brick wall" : a Conversation with Joachim Fest -- Labor, work, action -- Politics and crime : an exchange of letters -- Introduction to The Warriors by J. Glenn Gray -- On the human condition -- The crisis character of modern society -- Revolution and freedom, a lecture -- Is America by nature a violent society? -- The Possessed -- "The freedom to be free" : The conditions and meaning of revolution -- Imagination -- He 's all Dwight -- Emerson-Thoreau medal address -- The Archimedean point -- Heidegger at eighty -- For Martin Heidegger -- War crimes and the American conscience -- Letter to the editor of The New York Review of Books -- Values in contemporary society -- Hannah Arendt on Hannah Arendt -- Remarks -- Address to the advisory council on philosophy at Princeton University -- Interview with Roger Errera -- Public rights and private interests : a response to Charles Frankel -- Preliminary remarks about the life of the mind -- Transition -- Remembering Wystan H. Auden, who died in the night of the twenty-eighth of September, 1973.