classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville
Jenna Silber Storey of the American Enterprise Institute explores one great thinker’s thoughts about the roles of religion and democracy in public life. When Alexis de Tocqueville arrives in America…
George Leef writes for the Martin Center about higher education and the threat of fascism. In a recent essay published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale philosophy professor Jason…
That’s a question The Federalist hopes to answer, with a new series featuring Frenchman Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry’s analysis of modern-day implications from Tocqueville‘s classic work, Democracy in America. Gobry’s comments ought…
Back in the day, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: In New England, every citizen receives the elementary notions of human knowledge; he is moreover taught the doctrines and the evidences of…
Michael Barone‘s latest column contends that Republicans are battling problems identified by the author of the 19th-century Democracy In America. Tocqueville, after describing in Democracy in America how Americans avoided…
Here is Cafe Hayek’s quotation of the day: is from page 87 of Vol. 1 of the 1980 Knopf edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: But I am…
While making a tongue-in-cheek defense of elitism in the latest TIME, Joel Stein elicited a chuckle with the following: Antielitism is a cancer waiting to metastasize in any democracy and…
While Newsweek writers might not have captured the essence of Texas, at least the magazine showcases this week the work of a man who did a much better job cataloguing…
Peter Schramm, president of the Ashbrook Center, posted the comment below on the Center?s blog ?No Left Turns.? While he is not commenting on the NC History controversy directly,…
Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University won the Nobel Prize in Economics yesterday along with Oliver Williamson of UC Berkeley. Ostrom is a political scientist who has written extensively using the…
Joe, Your post made me think of Tocqueville: The sovereign extends its arms about the society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of petty regulations?complicated,…
That’s a quote from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) in this terrific audio interview with The Economist’s “Democracy in America.” (It’s the 3rd item in the first row of features.) Sen.…