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Recommendations for Rational Egoism Part 2: Tocqueville on 'Self-Interest Properly Understood'
Summary YouTube country that explains public spirit through self-interestIn 1831, 26-year-old French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville traveled to America with his friend Gustave de Beaumont. The ...
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Over the Flag Day weekend in Pennsylvania, crowds gathered, and communities were formed in the most unlikely of places, under viaducts, along gravel-filled tracks, and ...
Some more thoughts from the Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville. 1. This first statement is brilliant and perceptive beyond description. America, 2026: “When the taste for physical gratifications among ...
Paris, 1848. Tocqueville, who had been warning of a crisis in parliament, finds himself caught up in an actual revolution. What happens when a man who has observed democracy finds himself on the side ...
The hardest stories are so ordinary that no one thinks to notice them. The investigative legends make for better movies. A source slips an envelope beneath a restaurant table. Deep Throat appears in a ...
As you read this, Regnat Populus is underway. Early voting in Arkansas began on Oct. 19, and the last day to vote is Tuesday, Election Day.
The sheer presence of the locomotive drew crowds. Celebrations were formed among strangers for a couple of reasons: The locomotive is a reminder of what American workers, engineers and laborers are ...
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Over the Flag Day weekend in Pennsylvania, crowds gathered, and communities were formed in the most unlikely of places, under viaducts, along gravel-filled tracks and at ...
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