I have been reading Tocqueville again lately, prompted by our nation’s semiquincentennial celebrations. Looking at where we ...

Commentary: I’d love to ramble through the wilderness too, but I’m afraid of bears.

I am convinced that the most advantageous situation and the best possible laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of the manners of a country; whilst the latter may turn to some advantage the ...

Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat, wrote as a friend of democracy in America, albeit one with misgivings for its future. His insights on the nascent democratic society he visited in the ...

Alexis de Tocqueville went to America in 1831 to discover democracy. Democracy in America is often treated as a book about the United States, and of course it is. Tocqueville observed American ...

The best prophet is the best guesser. So said Hobbes, who was alluding to Cicero, who was quoting some unknown Greek sage. Prophecy first arose in the archaic religions and remained an exclusively ...

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