Part I. War and Peace -- Force and ideas -- Defining terms -- Vera Cruz -- Timid neutrality -- Life is cheap -- A little child shall lead them -- Are we Pro-German? -- Trade and the flag -- An appeal to the President -- Mr. Wilson's great utterance -- America to Europe, August, 1916 -- Perishable books -- British-American irritation -- Poltroons and pacifists -- The will to believe -- America speaks -- The defense of the Atlantic world -- The conditions for peace -- The world in revolution -- The great decision -- Beyond national government -- Assuming we join -- Part II. Politics -- The Palmer letter -- Taking a chance -- Brandeis -- Untrustworthy? -- The case against Brandeis -- The issues of 1916 -- At the Chicago conventions -- The puzzle of Hughes -- The Progressives -- Honor and election returns -- Chicago-December Fifth -- In the next four years -- And Congress -- Thank you for nothing -- Leonard Wood -- The logic of Lowden -- McAdoo -- Chicago 1920 -- Is Harding a Republican? -- Part III. Unrest -- Quiet, please -- Minimum wage -- Devil's advocates -- Lending and spending -- The railroad crisis and after -- The averted railway strike -- An ineffective remedy -- Can the strike be abandoned? -- The campaign against sweating -- Shorter hours -- The N.A.M. speaks -- Mr. Rockefeller on the stand -- The Rockefeller plan in Colorado -- Unrest -- Part IV. Arts and other matters -- Legenday John Reed -- Freud and the layman -- Scandal -- The footnote -- Inconspicuous creation -- "Plumb insane" -- Angels to the rescue -- "Americanism" -- Miss Lowell and things -- Science as scapegoat -- The lost theme -- The white passion.