Topic - Alexis De Tocqueville

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Take back America

  Is there any future for America or have the vital instincts of the masses been too deeply afflicted by the social malignancy of entitlement and uncontrolled wealth redistribution?

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  FEULNER: The power of civil society

  Conservatives and liberals clash frequently on a wide array of issues, from taxes to trade, from deficits to defense. But their greatest conflict may lie in their contrasting attitudes toward civil society.

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  BOOK REVIEW: Conservative women taking charge

  Two writers who, in effect, knew Phyllis Schlafly before she came on the scene were Alexis de Tocqueville and Henry James.

• BOOK REVIEW: Democracy with limitations

  It would be fair to say of Daniel J. Mahoney that a political scientist with his acute sense of analytical balance should be better known than he is. But then you get to thinking - balance? That's not what we're about in the modern world, is it? We're about pushing ideas - democracy, say - as far as they can be pushed until, well, we won't know until we get there, will we?

• BOOK REVIEW: What Palin believes and why

  Sarah Palin has read the writings of such intellectual giants as Milton Friedman, Alexis de Tocqueville and Whittaker Chambers and such historical leaders as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

• WETZSTEIN: Americans exceptional in fertility

  American "exceptionalism" has started popping up in commentaries and newscasts. The phrase is traced back to French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, who in the 1830s tried to explain to European elites why and how Americans were so different from them.

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  Senate repeals 'don't ask, don't tell'

  Setting the stage for a major social change, the Senate voted Saturday to overturn the military's policy banning openly gay and lesbian troops, know as "don't ask, don't tell," sending the repeal to President Obama for his signature.

• Winner of Booker Prize to be announced in London

  Six writers, including two-time winner Peter Carey and bookies' favorite Tom McCarthy, were in the running Tuesday for literature's prestigious Booker Prize.

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  BOOK REVIEW: Tocqueville's leap of faith

  Harvard political scientist Harvey C. Mansfield begins this thematic survey with a question: "What sort of man was Alexis de Tocqueville?" He toys with several answers before fastening onto Tocqueville's own self-description as "a new kind of liberal."

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  Peter Carey, Emma Donoghue up for Booker Prize

  Australian writer Peter Carey moved closer to a literary hat trick Tuesday when he was named a finalist for fiction's prestigious Booker Prize, an award he has already won twice.

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  TANCREDO: The case for impeachment

  Eleven years ago, like every citizen elected to serve in Congress or any person appointed to any federal position, I swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic."

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  BOSTOM: John Brennan: Witless for the defense

  A dry pun asks, "When is a door not a door?" - the answer being, "When it is ajar." But dry humor is clearly preferable to the deluded warping of the lexicon by the Obama administration's lead counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, which leads to this question, and requisite answer, "When is jihad not jihad?" - "When it is bloodless, spiritual struggle."

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  BOOK REVIEW: When the aristocrat met democracy

  Two Frenchmen's nine-month tour of Jacksonian America forms the basis for Alexis de Tocqueville's seminal book, "Democracy in America." Leo Damrosch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, describes this journey in his new book, "Tocqueville's Discovery of America."

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