Susan McWilliams Barndt is professor of politics at Pomona College. Her books include The American Road Trip and American Political Thought and A Political Companion to James Baldwin. Nicholas Buccola is professor of government and the Dr. Jules L. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College. His books include One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton). Roosevelt Montás is the John and Margaret Bard Professor in Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College and the author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Princeton).