De Tocqueville and the French exception

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The gloomiest of the great liberals worried that democracy might not be compatible with liberty
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He is the most unusual member of the liberal pantheon. Liberalism has usually been at its most vigorous among the Anglo-American middle classes. By contrast, Alexis de…

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