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Hillsdale Dialogues 06-18-21: Alexis de Tocqueville, Life & Times

Hillsdale Dialogues

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Hillsdale Dialogues 06-18-21: Alexis de Tocquevil…

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0:00.0

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0:05.9

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0:53.5

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1:24.0

Morning, Gloria America. That music means it's the last radio hour of the week. The Hillsdale

1:35.0

dialogue is upon us. All things Hillsdale are founded Hillsdale.edu. Once a week, we go very,

1:40.8

very big, very, very sometimes far back, sometimes not so far back. With guests from Hillsdale College,

1:47.1

including this week, Dr. Larry Arn, the president of Hillsdale College, and his colleague, Dr.

1:52.6

Khalil Habib. Now, Dr. Khalil Habib is on for the first time in a Hillsdale dialogue series that

1:58.0

extend now eight years or nine. He is an associate professor at the college. He received his BA

2:03.6

in political science at the University of Maine, his MA in political science from the University

2:08.3

of Toronto, his PhD in philosophy from Boston University is taught prior at Salve Regina in

2:14.9

Rhode Island. His most recent book is The Soul of Statesmanship, Shakespeare on Nature,

2:20.3

Virtue, and Political Wisdom. And he is taught what we are going to be talking about this week,

2:25.3

next and beyond Alexis de Tocqueville. And I must say, gentlemen, welcome. I'm very excited about

2:31.1

this because I have not read this book since 1976 when Alan Keyes managed to make it boring. I

2:37.5

love Alan, but it was after lunch, one o'clock after lunch for 20 weeks. And I just fell asleep all

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