Alexis de Tocqueville
An excerpt from Democracy in America.
I had remarked during my stay in the United States that a democratic state of society, similar to that of the...
Edmund Burke
On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters of Edmund Burke, ed. David Bromwich (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
Empire and Community: Edmund Burke's Writings and...
Edmund Burke, the eighteenth-century British statesman, has long been a popular figure for political conservatives to cite. But his views on religion get relatively little attention. This is a shame, because Burke has a lot to offer those...