Tocqueville

Occupy Wall Street: American as Apple Pie

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Karl Rove, David Crosby, Frank Capra, Steel Workers Organizing Committee, ?€ Erskine Bowles, Memorial Day Massacre, Pete Peterson, Occupy Wall Street, Tocqueville, Corporate Oligarchy, Zuccotti Park, ?€, ?€œthe Grapes of Wrath, Barack Obama, John Ford, ?€œSuper Committee, Ows, Koch Brothers, Auto-Lite Strike, Americans for Prosperity, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herman Cain, Tea Party Patriots, Corporate Power, Grover Norquist, Kochs, Plutocracy, Graham Nash, Swoc, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

In 1776, had the American revolutionaries tried the Barack Obama approach of "reaching out" in a spirit of "cooperation" with the Tories and the British Crown there never would have been a United States of America in the first place.

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Can We Still See and Serve Our True National Self-Interest?

James Bacchus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Paralysis, Debt, American Politics, Federal Budget Deficit, National Interest, Entitlement Spending, Congress, Principle of Interest Rightly Understood, Democracy in America, Tocqueville, Bipartisan Fiscal Commission, Partisanship, Politics News
James Bacchus

The biggest threat to America's future is not foreign competition. It is the political paralysis that keeps us from rising to the challenge of foreign competition.

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A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Newspapers, Contrarian, Andrew Butler, Secession, Secede, Media, Democracy in America, Civil Rights, Republican, Partisan Press, History, Alexis De Tocqueville, World War I, American History, Yellow Journalism, Mob, Espionage Act, Mccarthyism, Slavery, Bleeding Kansas, Abraham Lincoln, Julian Assange, House Divided, Preston Brooks, Caning, Civil War, Tea Party Republicans, Southern Strategy, Heritage, Missouri Compromise, Democrat, Tocqueville, Red-Baiting, Yellow Dog, Anti-War, Vincennes Gazette, Cane, South, Chris Weigant, Individualism, Sesquicentennial, Fox News, Being Mobbed, Lyndon Johnson, 150th Anniversary, News, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

While we are indeed currently politically divided and somewhat polarized, this is actually our normal state as a nation -- and on the polarization scale, we're nowhere near the "most divided" we've ever been. Far from it.

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The Gender Gap in Philanthropy Revealed

Lisa Witter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women for Women International, Women, Philanthropy, Gates, Tocqueville, Soros, Red Cross, Haiti, Buffet, Impact News
Lisa Witter

Research from the Women's Philanthropy Institute show that women, in general, score higher on motives of care and empathy. However, further research needs to examine other motivations for giving by gender.

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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soviets, Russian, Germany, Nuke, The Wall, Bomb, Democracy in America, The Wall Live, Berlin, Tocqueville, Cold War, Soviet Union, Nukes, East Germany, Communism, Roger Waters, Soviet, Nuclear Weapons, Alexis De Tocqueville, Brandenburg Gate, Chris Weigant, De Tocqueville, Checkpoint Charlie, Russia, Atom Bomb, Berlin Wall, H Bomb, East Berlin, A Bomb, Nuclear Bomb, Brandenburg, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

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Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters From America

Paula Deitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paula Deitz, Tocqueville, Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, De Tocqueville, Hudson Review, Books News
Paula Deitz

The Hudson Review has published 40 pages of Alexis de Tocqueville's Letters from America, the back story of Democracy in America, his future classic.

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Religion in America: Why Many Democrats and Europeans Don't Get It

Scott Atran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Tocqueville, America, Evangelical Christians, Sarah Palin, Charismatics, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, 2008 Election and Religion, Evangelicals, Politics News
Scott Atran

A culture's moral compass is not an innate or logical determination, but an underdetermined product of historical contingency and willful choice.

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Advice for Obama: Listen to Mark Twain

Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressive Era, John McCain, Teddy Roosevelt, Dan Balz, Reform, Mark Twain, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, Change, Obama Change, Tocqueville, Politics News
Sanford D. Horwitt

The problem with the word "change" is that it's soft and vague -- and that's how too many blue collar and undecided voters perceive Obama.

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