What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today

Abstract

"Russell Baker once said that in our time people cite Tocqueville without reading him even more than they do the Bibie and Shakespeare. Every American president sińce Eisenhower has ąuoted him, no doubt without reading him, and some of our professors, to say nothing of other citizens, have picked up their habit of fishing for what they like, and throwing back the rest, in Tocqueville’s great work Democracy in America."(...)