It is with a fair amount of hesitation, and even a bit of trepidation, that I embark upon the writing of this current essay regarding Alexis De…
The United States of America of the early nineteenth-century, the subject of Frenchman Alexis De Tocqueville’s classic work of history and political theory, was a nation in…
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (2001) has the scope of a magnum opus, and would truly be so if its…
In recent days, as they learned that the political establishment, the mainstream media, Big Tech, and other elites had conspired to get the presidential election result they…
The author of the best book ever written on America, and the best book ever written on democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, claimed to see almost no higher…
From a certain view, the most probing question Alexis de Tocqueville had to answer in Democracy in America is “Why are the Americans so restless in the…
To begin with a simple point, one basic insight of Tocqueville is that things are always getting better and worse. Thus, it is hardly surprising that Tocqueville…
We live in a time of law, in which there seem to be statutes, rules, and regulations regarding virtually every aspect of our lives. The battle cry of…
What should a democratic people fear in their leaders? That depends on the character of the people. When the great French philosopher and statesman Alexis de Tocqueville…
Plenty of liberals—and not just liberal professors—think there is a conservative conspiracy to use online education and MOOCs, to destroy genuinely higher education in this country. I see…
So everyone’s talking about the article by the intellectual Russell Jacoby on the alleged fact that there are no conservative intellectuals anymore. The article isn’t much good,…
Populist waves have been a constant in American politics at least since the Jacksonian era of the early nineteenth century, and traces of populist sentiment can be…
"The father saw from afar the limits at which his authority had to expire; and when time has brought him to those limits, he abdicates without difficulty."…
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Revolutions. Michał Kuź. Warsaw: Lazarski University Press, 2016. Michał Kuź’s Alexis de Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Revolutions is…
Max Weber in his sociological classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism addresses the question of what gives birth to rational capitalism in the west.…