American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

Episode 305: Tocqueville on Democracy's Intellectual Culture (Democracy in America, Part 5)

Apr 14, 2019

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We jump into volume 2 of Alexis de Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, where he begins to look at the mind of a democracy. He starts with its intellectual culture. It is not all pretty. Is banality the cost of democracy?

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