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Episode 305: Tocqueville on Democracy's Intellectual Culture (Democracy in America, Part 5)
We jump into volume 2 of Alexis de Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, where he begins to look at the mind of a democracy. He starts with its intellectual culture. It is not all pretty. Is banality the cost of democracy?
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