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Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: What Tocqueville Teaches Today

Published on: 2nd September, 2009

If we are ever to stop the advance of the administrative state, recover our liberty, and reassert our dignity as citizens rather than as clients and subjects, we must first understand what has occasioned central administrations’ seemingly inexorable march. Here, Alexis de Tocqueville is our best guide, for what he feared with regard to his native France is increasingly true for the United States.

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