Democratic Tyranny and the Need for Responsible Elites in American Politics
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…
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.…
Mormon Scholarship The obstacles confronting one to write about Mormon culture, specifically its religion and its relationship to liberal democracy are enormous: the conceptualization of liberal democracy…
Conserving America? Essays on Present Discontents. Patrick J. Deneen. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016. The current political polarization in the country today can be…
Both Tocqueville and Weber confronted the injection of mass suffrage into the liberal democratic polity with trepidation and caution but for different reasons: for Tocqueville, democracy produced…
Democratic Aesthetics in Tocqueville In his analysis of democracy Alexis de Tocqueville makes a number of observations about the relationship between political culture and arts. He writes…
Cosmopolitanism Today The word cosmopolitan implies that the world itself can be regarded as a polis or political community and that it is possible for the human…
Philosophy and the American Outlook Tocqueville presents American democracy in its practice as learning by doing and not through philosophical ideas. But in the first part of…
The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends. Daniel J. Mahoney. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute Press, 2008. …