Hillsdale Dialogues 06-25-21: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Part 1
Hillsdale Dialogues
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🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 1:19.3 | Good morning, Gloria America. It's you here at the Hillsdale Dialogues upon us. All things Hills |
| 1:42.0 | there at Hillsdale.edu. All of my previous conversations on matters large and enduring are at |
| 1:48.7 | you for Hillsdale.com. We've got 300 of those up there. Dr. Larry Arn is back, president of Hillsdale |
| 1:54.8 | College. As is his colleague, Dr. Khalil Habib. Last week we gave you an introduction to Alexis |
| 2:00.0 | Detokville, Democracy in America. This week we're going to kind of do a chapter by chapter quick |
| 2:06.0 | look at the introduction. First three chapters. Dr. Habib, I'm going to start with you in the |
| 2:10.4 | introduction. He really does lay out his project, and he asks people for a lot of indulgences, |
| 2:16.6 | because he's obviously planning to take a long time at this, and I'm kind of surprised by the |
| 2:22.1 | length that the French public was willing to go to put up with the study of their American. |
| 2:27.6 | They're not even cousins, right? But it was a bestseller. I mean, off the charts in France, |
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