Understanding Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” and the Administrative State – Discourses on Minerva

In this lecture, we explore Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, what he means by democracy, and how he correctly foresaw the danger and rise of the administrative state and imperial presidency as dangers to American democracy.

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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 Muses of a Fire, 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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