Tocqueville

Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


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.

Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters From America

Paula Deitz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books


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.

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

Scott Atran | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics


Scott Atran

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

Advice for Obama: Listen to Mark Twain

Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics


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.