1. System, the establishment, and the search for a new politics -- 2. James Bryant Conant: a man made system and vice versa -- 3. Theodore Brameld and the architecture of confusion -- 4. Jacques Barzun: Is is enough to be an anti-anti-intellectual? -- 5. B.F. Skinner's philosophy of human nature: a sympathetic criticism -- 6. Paul Goodman: a systematic thinker fights the system -- 7. Where is the polity?