Tag Archives: de Tocqueville

The Rise of the Plutocrats

By , November 19, 2012 in Reforming Global Finance

Why have Americans been so tolerant of the rising gulf between rich and poor?

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Individualism and Civility: 2012 Reflections on de Tocqueville’s 1831 America

By , May 27, 2012 in Globalist Perspective

Do Americans still do justice to the ideals of individualism that Alexis de Tocqueville believed were embodied by U.S. society?

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