Lecture: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America – Discourses on Minerva

In this online lecture I summarize Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America in 24 minutes, highlighting the uniqueness of America, civic patriotism, religious freedom, warnings against slavery and moral degeneracy, and why Tocqueville still matters.

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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the author of Finding Arcadia, The Odyssey of Love and the Politics of Plato, and a contributor to the College Lecture Today and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy and religious studies (biblical studies & theology) from the University of Buckingham and Yale, and a bachelor’s degree in economics, history, and philosophy from Baldwin Wallace University.

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