Introduction : brain change and social change
How the brain shapes the political mind
The political unconscious
The brain's role in family values
The brain's role in political ideologies
Political challenges for the twenty-first-century mind
Traumatic ideas : the War on Terror
Framing reality : privateering
Confronting stereotypes : sons of the welfare queen
Contested concepts everywhere
The technical is the political
Exploring the political brain
The problem of self-interest
The metaphors defining rational action
Language in the new enlightenment
Afterword : what if it works?
