About this episode

Dan discusses Alexis de Tocqueville’s insights on American democracy and the importance of small associations.

In this episode, Dan discusses Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, his thesis that America succeeded where others failed because of small associations, and his warning that abandoning those small associations for polite bureaucracies would be the end of our Republic. 

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