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** PRESENTS
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Icon Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
** H. W. Longfellow
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The Semiquincentennial fast approaches. As our blood includes the blue and white, as well as the red, and our ears swell with “the bombs bursting in air,” let us look back to America’s greatest observor. From the archive, three articles on Alexis de Tocqueville as a man, a sociologist, and a philosopher.
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FROM THE DECEMBER 1998 ISSUE
** What is Man? ([link removed])
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** RUSSELL HITTINGER
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Tocqueville, although he described the “modern difference” more clearly than anyone, did not concern himself with its genesis.
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FROM THE MARCH 1996 ISSUE
** Tocqueville’s Mirror ([link removed])
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** BRIAN C. ANDERSON
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We can and must moderate democracy, limit it, temper its hostility to nature, all the while benefiting from its conformity to nature.
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FROM THE AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2007 ISSUE
** Looking for America ([link removed])
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** JOSHUA MITCHELL
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Tocqueville’s worry is that, while in the aristocratic age the differences between men and women are highlighted more than they should be, in the democratic age they will be denied altogether.
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