Hillsdale Dialogues 07-16-21: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Part 3
Hillsdale Dialogues
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🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Scott Bertram, and I've got a challenge for you today. Become a better educated American |
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| 1:24.3 | Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. That music means we are into the Hillsdale dialogue, |
| 1:32.2 | the last radio hour of the week. And for the fourth week in a row, let me say that properly. For |
| 1:37.9 | the fourth week in a row, I'm talking with Dr. Larry Arne, President of Hillsdale College, |
| 1:43.3 | and Dr. Khalil Habib, who teaches at Hillsdale College about Alexis de Tocqueville. And if you |
| 1:49.1 | want to read Tocqueville, there is a Liberty Fund online edition available that Dr. Habib pointed me |
| 1:55.4 | to. And I want to go back and summarize. Actually, I will let Dr. Habib summarize where we have been |
| 2:02.3 | over the course of three Hillsdale dialogues, and where we're going today, Dr. Habib. |
| 2:07.1 | Sure. So what we've covered so far is Tocqueville trying to teach his countrymen in France. |
| 2:13.5 | Why Liberty never really took root in France? It resulted in the French Revolution, |
| 2:18.5 | which only strengthened despotism. And why in the United States, the American Revolution resulted |
| 2:26.0 | in far greater liberty. And he traces it to America's connection to its English roots and its |
| 2:33.7 | history of local participation. And so what he wants to teach the French is how vital it is to have |
| 2:40.0 | local participation and government to have a responsible understanding of rights and duties to |
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