Tocqueville

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• On Totalitarian Sentimentality: What It Is, And Why We Should Fight It

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 474
  Mark Steyn, who frequently serves as a fill-in for Rush Limbaugh and recently has been filling-in for Sean Hannity on his television program, is a genuine treasure.  He manages to combine a riotous sense of humor with conservative wisdom and his own je ne sais quoi. Today, on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, Steyn ...
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• Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe: "The State of Higher Education: Who Was Montesquieu?"

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Every once in a while one gets an insight into the sad state of higher education in the United States. Back in 2008, when my agent was attempting to market the manuscript of what recently appeared in two companion volumes under the titles Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, ...
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• Op-Ed Columnist: Heaven and Nature

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  
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• An Unexceptional Nation

  
  The New Republic - damon linker Feed — Authority: 99
  Neocons have begun to warm to Barack Obama’s foreign policy vision . What they’ve liked about his recent speeches (at West Point, but far more so in Oslo) is his willingness to defend (against the anti-political pacifism that dominates a segment of elite European opinion) the idea that there can be morally ...
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• Citizens of the World, Divide!

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 131
  Moorpark , CA . We are told to be careful with our words, to be aware of how our words might make other people feel or of how we might be misunderstood.  However important is this advice (and it is both important and grossly overused), these are not the primary reasons we should be thoughtful about our language.  ...
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• THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 423
  Usually we do not think of majority rule as tyrannical.  Alexis De Tocqueville , however, had no such illusions.  He understood that more than one republic had passed into despotism because  of majority rule.  And from his observations of 1831-32 America, he also understood just how tyrannical the majority ...
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• Gold: A Contrarians Dilemma

  
  immobilienblasen — Authority: 111
  A must read especially for the long term "freaks" aka GOLD-BUGS like myself that have to deal with the fact that Gold has won lots of "fans" lately and is in the short term unusually crowded .... Pflichtlektüre besonders für alle altgedienten "Freaks" bzw. GOLD-BUGS die momentan damit leben müssen das ...
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• THE RIGHT OF FREE ASSOCIATION

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 423
    The First Amendment of our Constitution lists about six rights.   Article [I.] (See Note 13) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to ...
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• Four Advances that Set News Back [CLIMATEGATE and The Supressed Marketplace of Ideas]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  4 Advances That Set News Back Jefferson’s vision for news called for a multitude of voices, competing in a freewheeling marketplace of ideas. By the end of his life in 1826, he had watched news make steady progress toward this vision. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, in his book Democracy in America of that ...
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• Imitation and the Art of Flattery: the Cold War of the Imagination

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 131
  Washington, Connecticut. At the end of his introduction to a re-publication of the Marquis de Custine’s “Empire of the Czar, A Journey Through Eternal Russia,” George F. Kennan recalls a quote from his friend Isaiah Berlin.  Kennan relies on Berlin’s remark that  ”victims make acute observers” to ...
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• HATE CRIME

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 423
  I expect it has been done, and I have just never heard it. Surely someone has mentioned it. When they write, some journalists commit hate crimes. Nonetheless, I fear this is just one of those things we have to put up with.   In Democracy in America , Alexis De Tocqueville   sort of put it this way.    I ...
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• As a Student of Realpolitik, Obama’s Catching On Fast: Dziennik, Poland

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 674
  In the realm of getting the job done – principle be damned – how is President Obama doing? According to columnist Zbigniew Parafianowicz of Poland’s Dziennik newspaper, the brass tacks deal-making Barack Obama has been pursuing shows that he’s adjusting well to the inevitable compromises of power. For ...
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• Video : Ron Paul Al Qaeda ‘Visited Afghanistan’

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 127
  Though Governor Paul is correct in asserting that the United States has supported puppet governments throughout the Arab and “Muslim world,” however, he seems to be grasping at anything to support his argument. First off, Governor, the United States did have a very specific reason for going into Afghanistan: Al ...
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• AMERICA’S ARISTOCRACY

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 423
  When Alexis De Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America , he observed  the class distinctions between Americans during the years of 1831 and 1832 .  He was particularly interested in these distinctions as they related to the governance of our society. What follows are a portion of the contents of Chapter 10, ...
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