Democracy in America

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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

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Civilization: The West and the Rest

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Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country

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Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

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The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

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Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

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How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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On Liberty

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Truman

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The Problem with Socialism

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution

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The Age of Reason

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1776

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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

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Great Society: A New History

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John Adams

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The Course of Human Events

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Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas

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The Case Against Socialism

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Rights of Man

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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

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Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism

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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

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Lincoln

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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Olivier Zunz, "The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville" (Princeton UP, 2022): An interview with Oliver Zunz

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Olivier Zunz, "The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville" (Princeton UP, 2022): An interview with Oliver Zunz

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Tocqueville on Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835/40) can claim to be the best book ever written about democracy and the best book ever written about America. David discusses what Tocqueville was expecting when he went to see American democra...

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Olivier Zunz on Alexis de Tocqueville

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Tocqueville: Democracy in America: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.

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Tocqueville: The Search for Liberty, Equality & Democracy

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Tocqueville: Democracy in America: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.

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Tocqueville: Democracy in America: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.

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G. John Ikenberry on Liberal Internationalism

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Episode 98: The Refined Sociopathy of The Economist: From its inception as agriculture trade paper in 1843 to the present day, The Economist has provided a gateway into the mind of the banking class. Something of an anomaly in the publishing industry, The Economist is not quite a magazine, not quite a...

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Francis Fukuyama Responds to Liberalism's Discontents

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Eva Fodor, "The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary" (Palgrave, 2021): An interview with Eva Fodor

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The Path to Digital Democracy: This panel discussion looks at how open technologies and new systems of governance could be a path toward a future of democracy. We also hear about the avenues for improvement with modern voting techniques and liquid democracy.

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R8 Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? | Plato's Republic, book 8: Plato argued that the inevitable next step in political evolution after democracy is tyranny. Many political thinkers throughout history agreed with him. Were they right? ------------------ Support Ancient Greece Declassified on Patreon: Or...

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Democracy in America: In January, 1835, the first volume of a book named Democracy in America was published in Paris. It was a great critical and commercial success. The author, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville, became a celebrity and was awarded...

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43 - Tyranny at Work feat. Elizabeth Anderson

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This Philosopher Wants Liberals to Take Political Power Seriously: America today faces a crisis of governance. In the face of numerous challenges — from climate change, to housing shortages, to pandemics — our institutions struggle to act quickly and decisively. Democratic processes often get captured by special interests or paralyzed by polarization. And, in response, public faith in government has reached a new low. For the political philosopher Danielle Allen, this crisis requires a complete transformation of our democratic institutions. “Representation as designed cannot work under current conditions,” she writes. “We have no choice but to undertake a significant project of democracy renovation.” Allen’s most recent book — “Justice By Means of Democracy” — puts forth a sweeping vision of what she calls “power-sharing liberalism,” which aims to place political equality, power and participation at the center of liberal thinking. But Allen isn’t just a theorist of liberal governance

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EP68: Science Against the People (ft. Charles Schwartz & Sigrid Schmalzer): Today, right-wingers attack science and liberals defend it. Science good, anti-science Republicans bad--that's the prevailing narrative, especially so during the March for Science in 2017. However, it's not so simple.

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Can We Keep It?: Tony Mills, a senior fellow at AEI whose work focuses on science policy and political theory, joins the Remnant for an ultra-nerdy exploration of the American political tradition. He and Jonah examine whether liberalism alone can sustain the United States and why our experts have fallen into such low repute. Is free market capitalism corrosive? Why is civic republicanism important? And what are the advantages and disadvantages of bureaucracy?

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Too Much Winning: AL Kennedy argues that our 'winner-takes-all' mentality is suffocating democracy.

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Can Our Democracy Survive?: It's time the rose colored glasses are removed. Our democracy isn't just in trouble--it's in shambles

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Democracy vs. Itself: Jacob Weisberg checks back in with Yascha Mounk about the state of liberal democracy in America and abroad.

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The Good Fight: Virginia Heffernan talks to Yascha Mounk about the warning signs that signal the end of liberal democracies and how we can protect it.

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The Crisis of Liberalism:  joins  to discuss the history of modern American liberalism and its architects, how the 1960s mirrors today's politics, the uncertain future of New York City, and more. Siegel's new book is .

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Episode #26 - Mike Shedlock and the Threat of MMT in the Age of COVID-19: As the world goes into lock down over the threat of COVID-19 coronavirus I take a few minutes to remind everyone that it is the government response to this destruction of the private sector economy is the real threat to not only our liberty but our...

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Peter Berkowitz on Locke, Liberty, and Liberalism: Peter Berkowitz talks with host Russ Roberts about the origins of liberalism and the importance of John Locke. He defends the liberal project of individual rights and liberty and argues that critics of Locke mischaracterize his thought. The conversation closes with an evaluation of the Enlightenment.

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The Triumph of Tribalism: Andrew Sullivan on how America has become 'a truly tribal society'.

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Vanessa Rampton, "Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2020): An interview with Vanessa Rampton

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Madison Can't Get a Seat at the Starbucks, and How to Read a Constitution: How James Madison and Alexander Hamilton interpreted the Constitution, from a 2012 episode.

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WHOSE LIFE MATTERS MAYORS REVIVAL PART 32: ‘’Just in time to fill this void, two new systems of governance burst onto the world stage. Thes...