| Preface | |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Public Culture in the Twentieth Century | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | The "Tough-Minded" Justice Holmes,Jewish Intellectuals, and the Making of an American Icon | 42 |
| Ch. 4 | Two NYUs and "The Obligation of Universities to the Social Order" in the Great Depression | 60 |
| Ch. 5 | The Defense of Democracy and Robert K. Merton's Formulation of the Scientific Ethos | 80 |
| Ch. 6 | Free Enterprise and Free Inquiry: The Emergence of Laissez-Faire Communitarianism in the Ideology of Science in the United States | 97 |
| Ch. 7 | Academic Culture at the University of Michigan, 1938-1988 | 121 |
| Ch. 8 | Science as a Weapon in Kulturkampfe in the United States during and after World War II | 155 |
| Index | 175 |