Podcasts about Alexis de Tocqueville

X: @MDH_GFU @americasrt1776 @ileaderssummit @NatashaSrdoc @JoelAnandUSA @supertalk Join America's Roundtable radio co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy with Professor Mark David Hall who joined the faculty of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University in 2023. In this special feature leading up to the commencement of America's 250th anniversary celebrations on July 4, 2026, America's Roundtable will present leading voices on the American Founding and highlight the principles which fueled American exceptionalism. America's Roundtable is honored to partner with Freedom 250, an initiative launched by President Trump on December 18, 2025, in leading our nation's 250th anniversary celebrations. America's Roundtable, joined by America's top scholars and a group of senior executives from the publishing industry, are creating an Official Publication - a book and online educational project which will highlight the American Founding, key events and influential leaders who shaped our nation. The book project will share inspiring stories which present a people's commitment to liberty and a strong resilience in advancing freedom within its borders and beyond its shores. Dr. Hall's video featured by The White House: The Story of America: The Faith of Our Founders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgaVjksOo70 Bio | Dr. Mark Hall Dr. Hall is widely regarded as a leading student of religious liberty and church-state relations in America. Hall serves as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice and prior to Regent, he was the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics at George Fox University. Dr. Hall earned a B.A. in Political Science from Wheaton College (IL) and a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia. Dr. Hall has written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books, including Who's Afraid of Christian Nationalism: Why Christian Nationalism is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church (by Fidelis Books in 2024); Proclaim Liberty Through All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans (by Fidelis, 2023); Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth (by Nelson Books, 2019); Great Christian Jurists in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Faith and the Founders of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2014); and Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2013). He has also penned more than 150 book chapters, journal articles, reviews, and other pieces. americasrt.com https://summitleadersusa.com/ | https://jerusalemleaderssummit.com/ America's Roundtable on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/americas-roundtable/id1518878472 X: @MDH_GFU @americasrt1776 @ileaderssummit @NatashaSrdoc @JoelAnandUSA @supertalk America's Roundtable is co-hosted by Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy, co-founders of International Leaders Summit and the Jerusalem Leaders Summit. America's Roundtable radio program focuses on America's economy, healthcare reform, rule of law, security and trade, and its strategic partnership with rule of law nations around the world. The radio program features high-ranking US administration officials, cabinet members, members of Congress, state government officials, distinguished diplomats, business and media leaders and influential thinkers from around the world. Tune into America's Roundtable Radio program from Washington, DC via live streaming on Saturday mornings via 68 radio stations at 7:30 A.M. (ET) on Lanser Broadcasting Corporation covering the Michigan and the Midwest market, and at 7:30 A.M. (CT) on SuperTalk Mississippi — SuperTalk.FM reaching listeners in every county within the State of Mississippi, and neighboring states in the South including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. Tune into WTON in Central Virginia on Sunday mornings at 6:00 A.M. (ET). Listen to America's Roundtable on digital platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google and other key online platforms. Listen live, Saturdays at 7:30 A.M. (CT) on SuperTalk | https://www.supertalk.fm

John McGinnis, law professor at Northwestern University and author of Why Democracy Needs the Rich, examines constitutional design, democratic stability, and the accelerating force of artificial intelligence. Drawing on the Federalist Papers, Tocqueville, and public choice theory, he argues that a realistic understanding of politics is essential to preserving both liberty and effective state capacity. McGinnis traces his intellectual formation to a "hard-headed realism" learned early in life and later reinforced by the American founding. At the center of his thinking is a practical constitutional question: how to build sufficient state capacity while preventing its abuse. He emphasizes the importance of an entrenched constitution that is difficult to amend, arguing that stability enables long-term planning and protects society from short-term political passions. Several themes shape the discussion: Public choice and political incentives. Politics does not operate in a purely public-spirited way; concentrated interests often organize more effectively than diffuse ones. Understanding this dynamic is essential for evaluating policy debates. Historical perspective as stabilizer. Many contemporary political phenomena appear unprecedented but are not. From Andrew Jackson to the present, democratic politics has repeatedly unsettled elites while preserving constitutional continuity. Technology as the dominant variable. McGinnis argues that AI will overshadow most current political disputes. As a general cognitive tool, it will be embedded across sectors, reshaping law, education, national security, and economic organization. Comparative advantage in an AI world. As machines assume cognitive tasks, human value will shift toward persuasion, judgment, and relational skills. Professionals must rethink where they add distinctive value. Education under acceleration. The coexistence of AI-enabled and AI-restricted learning may become necessary to preserve independent thinking while leveraging technological capability. The civic role of the wealthy. In Why Democracy Needs the Rich, McGinnis contends that wealthy individuals diversify democratic discourse, counterbalance concentrated interests, support minority rights movements, and fund public goods such as universities and museums. Their independence allows them to take risks others cannot. The episode also addresses rising student anxiety, the erosion of historical literacy, and the long-term question of meaning in a world where work may change substantially. McGinnis maintains that constitutional stability, plural centers of influence, and technological leadership remain central to American resilience. This conversation offers a grounded framework for thinking about democracy, incentives, and technological acceleration. It situates current debates within a longer historical arc while identifying AI as the structural force most likely to define the next decade. Get John's new book, Why Democracy Needs the Rich, here: https://tinyurl.com/msk9fd4k Claim your free gift: Free gift #1 McKinsey & BCG winning resume www.FIRMSconsulting.com/resumePDF Free gift #2 Breakthrough Decisions Guide with 25 AI Prompts www.FIRMSconsulting.com/decisions Free gift #3 Five Reasons Why People Ignore Somebody www.FIRMSconsulting.com/owntheroom Free gift #4 Access episode 1 from Build a Consulting Firm, Level 1 www.FIRMSconsulting.com/build Free gift #5 The Overall Approach used in well-managed strategy studies www.FIRMSconsulting.com/OverallApproach Free gift #6 Get a copy of Nine Leaders in Action, a book we co-authored with some of our clients: www.FIRMSconsulting.com/gift

This week on The Last Gay Conservative Podcast, we connect three seemingly unrelated stories that reveal the same dangerous pattern: performance replacing governance.• American politicians campaigning in Munich• A Senate candidate's radical past rebranded mid-campaign• Congress fumbling the Farm Bill• A federal judge redefining what counts as a constitutional burdenDifferent arenas. Same instinct: control optics, adjust definitions, avoid friction.When diplomacy becomes content, campaigns become cosplay, and courts start redefining thresholds, the guardrails don't collapse loudly — they move quietly.This episode breaks down:✔ Why international political theater carries real geopolitical risk✔ The danger of “wolf in sheep's clothing” candidates✔ What's really inside the new Farm Bill✔ How subtle judicial redefinitions shift power✔ Why performance culture erodes accountabilityThis isn't about outrage. It's about incentive structures.

In Davos last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney lamented what he called “the end of a pleasant fiction.” That notion has is hard to fathom yet impossible to ignore. For decades, the United States did not merely wield power. It framed power in moral terms. Legitimacy. Integrity. Rules. Whether we always lived up to those words is one question. Whether we still speak them with credibility is another. In this solo reflection, Corey Nathan explores what it means when America is no longer the country that lends moral language to the world order, but the country other nations feel compelled to hedge against. From Tocqueville's warning about democratic withdrawal to Jonathan Rauch's analysis of patrimonialism, from Lincoln's humility to the theological posture of the National Prayer Breakfast, this episode wrestles with a turning point. If the pleasant fiction is over, what replaces it? Calls to Action ✅ If this conversation resonates, consider sharing it with someone who believes connection across difference still matters. ✅ Subscribe to Corey's Substack: coreysnathan.substack.com ✅ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen: ratethispodcast.com/goodfaithpolitics ✅ Subscribe to Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other on your favorite podcast platform. ✅ Watch the full conversation and subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/@politicsandreligion What This Episode Explores The End of a Moral Vocabulary For generations, American power was framed in moral language. Integrity and legitimacy were not just strategic tools but aspirations. Today, that language lands differently, not as calling card but as indictment. From Moral Order to Patrimonialism Drawing on the work of Jonathan Rauch, this episode examines what happens when public power begins to resemble personal property. Loyalty replaces rules. Access depends on fealty. Markets and institutions begin to read the room rather than uphold neutral principles. The National Prayer Breakfast and Theological Posture A prayer breakfast is meant to orient upward in humility. When reverence bends inward, the shift is not merely stylistic. It is theological. Tocqueville's Warning Democracy's danger may not arrive as sudden tyranny but as gradual withdrawal. Citizens retreat into private grievance. Moral discipline erodes. Individualism curdles into narcissism. The Comforting Assumption About Ourselves Nearly every white pastor today believes they would have stood with Martin Luther King Jr. The question is not whether that belief is sincere. The question is whether it would have been true. The Choice Before Citizens The world is already adjusting. Allies hedge. Middle powers collaborate. The question now belongs to citizens, not prime ministers. Withdrawal is understandable. It is not inevitable. Why This Matters Now The loss at stake is not only status but trust. If the pleasant fiction required tending, then its collapse requires responsibility. Renewal, if it comes, will not arrive through taunts or spectacle. It will be decided by habits, by courage, by whether citizens retreat or step forward. Connect on Social Media Corey is @coreysnathan on all the socials... Substack LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Threads Bluesky TikTok Thanks to our Sponsors and Partners Thanks to Pew Research Center for making today's conversation possible. Gratitude as well to Village Square for coming alongside us in this work and helping foster better civic dialogue. Links and additional resources: Pew Research Center: pewresearch.org The Village Square: villagesquare.us Meza Wealth Management: mezawealth.com Proud members of The Democracy Group Final Thought The question is not who we would like to identify with in the story. The question is where our words, positions, and actions actually place us. Go talk some politics and religion. Step forward. With gentleness and respect.

"How can you not be a populist in this day and age?" — Hélène LandemoreIn February 2020, The New Yorker profiled a Yale professor making the case for citizen rule. Six years later, that political scientist, Hélène Landemore, has a new book entitled Politics Without Politicians arguing that politics should be "an amateur sport instead of an expert's job" and that randomly selected citizen assemblies should replace representative democracy. Landemore calls it "jury duty on steroids."Landemore draws on her experience observing France's Citizens' Conventions on both climate and end-of-life issues to now direct Connecticut's first state-level citizen assembly. We discuss why the Greeks used lotteries instead of elections, what G.K. Chesterton meant by imagining democracy as a "jolly hostess," and why she has sympathy for the anti-Federalists who lost the argument about the best form of American government to Madison. When I ask if she's comfortable being called a populist, she doesn't flinch: "If the choice is between populist and elitist, I don't know how you can not be a populist." From the Damon Wells'58 Professor of Political Science at Yale, this might sound a tad suicidal. At least professionally. But Landemore's jolly argument for a politics without politicians is the type of message that will win elections in our populist age.About the GuestHélène Landemore is the Damon Wells'58 Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule (2026) and Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (2020).ReferencesThinkers discussed:●      G.K. Chesterton was the British essayist who defined democracy as an "attempt, like that of a jolly hostess, to bring the shy people out"—a vision Landemore finds more inspiring than technical definitions about elite selection.●      James Madison and the Federalists designed a republic meant to filter popular passions through elected representatives; Landemore has sympathy for their anti-Federalist opponents who wanted legislatures that looked like "a mini-portrait of the people."●      Alexis de Tocqueville warned about the dangers of trusting ordinary people—a caution Landemore pushes back against, arguing that voters respond to the limited choices they're given.●      Max Weber wrote "Politics as a Vocation" (1919), arguing that politics requires a special calling; Landemore questions whether it should be a profession at all.●      Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his concept of the general will has been blamed for totalitarian impulses; Landemore rejects the comparison, insisting her vision preserves liberal constitutional frameworks.●      Joseph Schumpeter defined democracy as "a method for elite selection"—precisely the technocratic framing Landemore wants to overturn.Citizen assembly experiments mentioned:●      The Irish Citizens' Assembly on abortion (2016-2017) is often cited as proof that randomly selected citizens can deliberate on divisive issues and reach workable conclusions.●      The French Citizens' Convention on End-of-Life (2022-2023) found common ground between pro- and anti-euthanasia factions by focusing on palliative care—a case Landemore observed firsthand.●      The French Citizens' Convention for Climate (2019-2020) brought 150 randomly selected citizens together to propose climate policy; participants were paid 84-95 Euros per day.●      The Connecticut citizen assembly on local public services, planned for summer 2026, will be the first state-level citizen assembly in the United States. Landemore is directing its design.Also mentioned:●      Zephyr Teachout is the left-wing populist who called Landemore a "reluctant populist."●      Oliver Hart (Harvard) and Luigi Zingales (Chicago) are economists working with Landemore to apply the citizen assembly model to corporate governance reform.●      The Council of 500 was the Athenian deliberative body whose members were selected by lottery, with a rotating chair appointed daily.●      John Stuart Mill is the liberal theorist whose emphasis on minority rights raises the question of whether Landemore's majoritarianism is illiberal. She says no.About Keen On AmericaNobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States—hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,800 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting.WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyChapters:(00:00) - Chapter 1 (00:00) - Six years from New Yorker profile to book (01:14) - Politics as amateur sport (02:08) - What the Greeks got right (04:03) - Citizen assemblies: jury duty on steroids (06:21) - The Yale professor who speaks for ordinary people (07:11) - Rousseau and the age of innocence (08:41) - The gerontocracy problem (09:33) - Do we need a communitarian impulse? (11:30) - Experts on tap, not on top (15:15) - The reluctant populist (17:01) - Can we trust ordinary people? (19:11) - How it works at scale (23:14) - Why professional politicians are failing (26:15) - Max Weber and politics as vocation (29:08) - Leaders who emerge organically (30:04) - Rejecting Madison and the Federalists (32:26) - Finding common intere...

In Davos last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney lamented what he called “the end of a pleasant fiction.” That notion has is hard to fathom yet impossible to ignore. For decades, the United States did not merely wield power. It framed power in moral terms. Legitimacy. Integrity. Rules. Whether we always lived up to those words is one question. Whether we still speak them with credibility is another. In this solo reflection, Corey Nathan explores what it means when America is no longer the country that lends moral language to the world order, but the country other nations feel compelled to hedge against. From Tocqueville's warning about democratic withdrawal to Jonathan Rauch's analysis of patrimonialism, from Lincoln's humility to the theological posture of the National Prayer Breakfast, this episode wrestles with a turning point. If the pleasant fiction is over, what replaces it? Calls to Action ✅ If this conversation resonates, consider sharing it with someone who believes connection across difference still matters. ✅ Subscribe to Corey's Substack: coreysnathan.substack.com ✅ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen: ratethispodcast.com/goodfaithpolitics ✅ Subscribe to Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other on your favorite podcast platform. ✅ Watch the full conversation and subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/@politicsandreligion What This Episode Explores The End of a Moral Vocabulary For generations, American power was framed in moral language. Integrity and legitimacy were not just strategic tools but aspirations. Today, that language lands differently, not as calling card but as indictment. From Moral Order to Patrimonialism Drawing on the work of Jonathan Rauch, this episode examines what happens when public power begins to resemble personal property. Loyalty replaces rules. Access depends on fealty. Markets and institutions begin to read the room rather than uphold neutral principles. The National Prayer Breakfast and Theological Posture A prayer breakfast is meant to orient upward in humility. When reverence bends inward, the shift is not merely stylistic. It is theological. Tocqueville's Warning Democracy's danger may not arrive as sudden tyranny but as gradual withdrawal. Citizens retreat into private grievance. Moral discipline erodes. Individualism curdles into narcissism. The Comforting Assumption About Ourselves Nearly every white pastor today believes they would have stood with Martin Luther King Jr. The question is not whether that belief is sincere. The question is whether it would have been true. The Choice Before Citizens The world is already adjusting. Allies hedge. Middle powers collaborate. The question now belongs to citizens, not prime ministers. Withdrawal is understandable. It is not inevitable. Why This Matters Now The loss at stake is not only status but trust. If the pleasant fiction required tending, then its collapse requires responsibility. Renewal, if it comes, will not arrive through taunts or spectacle. It will be decided by habits, by courage, by whether citizens retreat or step forward. Connect on Social Media Corey is @coreysnathan on all the socials... Substack LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Threads Bluesky TikTok Thanks to our Sponsors and Partners Thanks to Pew Research Center for making today's conversation possible. Gratitude as well to Village Square for coming alongside us in this work and helping foster better civic dialogue. Links and additional resources: Pew Research Center: pewresearch.org The Village Square: villagesquare.us Meza Wealth Management: mezawealth.com Proud members of The Democracy Group Final Thought The question is not who we would like to identify with in the story. The question is where our words, positions, and actions actually place us. Go talk some politics and religion. Step forward. With gentleness and respect.

In the December 1, 2025, print edition of the Wall Street Journal, there was this headline on page R25: "These 10 books changed the way Americans thought about work." Carol Hymowitz, the author, wrote: "It began with Benjamin Franklin, who couldn't stop working or writing about work throughout his 84-year long life." Carol Hymowitz has been associated with the Wall Street Journal since she got her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. Other books she featured in this article about work include Tocqueville, Frederick Douglass, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Dale Carnegie, and C. Wright Mills, plus others. We wanted to know how she chose these 10 books about work, so we had a chat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the December 1, 2025, print edition of the Wall Street Journal, there was this headline on page R25: "These 10 books changed the way Americans thought about work." Carol Hymowitz, the author, wrote: "It began with Benjamin Franklin, who couldn't stop working or writing about work throughout his 84-year long life." Carol Hymowitz has been associated with the Wall Street Journal since she got her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. Other books she featured in this article about work include Tocqueville, Frederick Douglass, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Dale Carnegie, and C. Wright Mills, plus others. We wanted to know how she chose these 10 books about work, so we had a chat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

USA - Europe : La grande rupture ?Qui aurait imaginé un jour voir des soldats européens déployés pour protéger l'un de leurs territoires de l'impérialisme américain ? Sidérée et inquiète, l'Europe observe l'éloignement de son plus puissant allié. Un éloignement géopolitique, mais aussi idéologique, d'autant plus violent que nos deux mondes étaient liés par une promesse commune…Il y a 250 ans, en Amérique, une révolution politique s'inspirait en effet d'une révolution intellectuelle née en Europe, celle des Lumières. Une révolution qui allait traverser l'Atlantique pour fonder les États-Unis sur des principes de liberté, d'égalité et de souveraineté du peuple.Mais que reste-t-il aujourd'hui de cet héritage à l'heure où Donald Trump et des idéologues rêvent d'éteindre les Lumières pour s'accaparer le projecteur…L'Amérique et l'Europe appartiennent-ils désormais à deux mondes différents, et peut-être même rivaux ? Doit-on se résoudre à se séparer ? Le rejet là-bas des Lumières, la remise en cause de la raison, de la science et de l'universalisme, peut-elle aussi franchir l'Atlantique et s'installer chez nous ?Anne-Sophie MOREAU Directrice de la rédaction de Philonomist, rédactrice en chef de Philomag, , autrice de "Fermentations" aux éditions du Seuil (07.02.25)Heinz WISMANN Philologue et philosophe, auteur de « Lire entre les lignes » aux éditions Albin Michel (20.03.24)Antoine LILTI Directeur de recherche à l'EHESS et titulaire de la chaire "Les Lumières du 18ᵉ siècle au 21ᵉ siècle" au Collège de France, auteur de « L'illusion d'un monde commun, Tahiti et la découverte de l'Europe » aux éditions Flammarion, (24.09.25), podcast “Lumières, anatomie d'un idéal” (France Inter)Arnaud MIRANDA Théoricien politique, auteur de « Lumières sombres. Comprendre la pensée néoréactionnaire » aux éditions Gallimard & Le Grand Continent, (22.01.26) collection « Bibliothèque de Géopolitique"Françoise MÉLONIO Professeure émérite à la Sorbonne, éditrice des Œuvres complètes de Tocqueville aux éditions Gallimard, autrice de « Tocqueville » aux éditions Gallimard (25.09.25), prix Aujourd'hui (2025)

Verantwortung, Macht und das unbequeme Ungleichgewicht unserer ZeitViele sagen heute: Die Demokratie ist in Gefahr.Doch kaum jemand stellt die entscheidende Frage: Warum eigentlich?Liegt die Bedrohung in Populismus und Polarisierung?In supranationalen Institutionen und Machtverschiebungen?Oder vielleicht tiefer – im Inneren der Demokratie selbst?In dieser Folge des Stoischen Piraten geht es um eine unbequeme, selten offen diskutierte Frage:Kann eine Demokratie dauerhaft funktionieren, wenn immer weniger Menschen den Staat finanzieren, während immer mehr über seine Ausgaben entscheiden?Wir sprechen über die historische Entwicklung der Demokratie – von Wehrfähigkeit und Steuerleistung bis zum modernen Sozialstaat. Über Platon, Aristoteles, John Stuart Mill und Alexis de Tocqueville. Über das Prinzip no taxation without representation – und darüber, warum es sich heute vielerorts in representation without taxation zu verkehren droht.Ein zentraler Gedanke dabei: Demokratie war nie als reines Konsumrecht gedacht, sondern als Ordnung, in der politische Mitsprache an Verantwortung gebunden ist – an Risiko, Beitrag und Dienst am Gemeinwesen.Was passiert, wenn diese Verbindung verloren geht?Wenn politische Entscheidungen zunehmend von jenen getroffen werden, die ihre Konsequenzen nicht mehr tragen?Und wie könnte ein modernes Verständnis von Skin in the Game aussehen – jenseits von Geld, aber nicht ohne Verantwortung?Diese Folge ist kein Plädoyer gegen die Demokratie. Im Gegenteil. Sie ist ein Versuch, sie ernst zu nehmen.Webpage:https://www.muellermathias.ch/

My guest is Robyn Curnow, a native South African who spent over two decades at CNN, where she hosted CNN's Newsroom, and anchored The International Desk with Robyn Curnow. Prior to that, she served as the network's Africa correspondent out of Johannesburg and covered Europe out of CNN's London Bureau. If you don't recognize her name, I bet you'll recognize her distinctive voice because you likely saw her interviews with some of the most prominent people of our lifetimes, including Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Robyn has covered news stories as diverse and dynamic as Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, the rise of Boko Haram, the 2010 World Cup, and the murder of Jammal Khashoggi. This work earned her and her colleagues multiple Emmy nominations, the Royal Television Society Award, and the duPont-Columbia Award. On her new podcast, Searching for America—which I love—Robyn explores our society and culture through the eyes of a new-comer. Like a modern-day de Tocqueville, she offers a sincerely interested outsider's perspective on the quirks of American life, including the Halloween Industrial complex, the obsession with high school graduation and college acceptance, turducken, and—most importantly—our collective love of Dolly Parton. She lives in Atlanta where she and I serve on a school board together. Rate and Review Reasonably Happy: https://ratethispodcast.com/paulopod Read Paul's Substack essays here: https://words.paulollinger.com/ Listen to Searching for America here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3j83wBMdUQnOcQTfK2pg9I

Tras un muy buen 2025 para los mercados emergentes, los estrategas siguen viéndoles atractivo. ¿Mejor renta variable o renta fija? ¿Cómo jugarlo en las carteras? Lo analizamos con Isabel Sánchez, de Arquia Banca, y Javier Aledo, de AFI Inversiones Globales. ¡Últimas plazas para Finect Outlook! No te quedes sin la tuya ➡️ https://luma.com/ugt9umdh?utm_source=alpha Recomendaciones de este episodio: ✅ Vida de los césares, de Suetonio: https://www.amazon.es/Vidas-los-C%C3%A9sares-Libro-Bolsillo/dp/8491811982 ✅ El despotismo democrático, de Tocqueville: https://www.amazon.es/despotismo-democr%C3%A1tico-ENSAYO-Alexis-Tocqueville/dp/8412648935 ✅ Seda, de Alessandro Baricco: https://www.amazon.es/seda-alessandro-baricco-Libros/s?k=seda+alessandro+baricco&rh=n%3A599364031 ✅ Supercommunicators, de Charles Duhigg: https://www.amazon.es/Supercommunicators-Unlock-Secret-Language-Connection/dp/0593243919 *Este contenido se ha elaborado bajo un criterio editorial y no constituye una recomendación ni propuesta de inversión. La inversión contiene riesgos. Las rentabilidades pasadas no son garantía de rentabilidades futuras.*

2026. À peine l'année entamée, et déjà — comme l'écrivait Tocqueville — « le passé n'éclaire plus l'avenir ». Nos repères vacillent, et un nouveau monde semble advenir sous nos yeux sidérés.Un nouveau monde où Donald Trump, se comporte en empereur sur son propre continent : contrôle du Venezuela aujourd'hui, menaces à peine voilées sur le Mexique, la Colombie ou Cuba demain. Et au-delà des Amériques, l'Europe où Trump a décidé de prendre le Groenland au Danemark. En arrière-plan, la raréfaction des ressources naturelles et la rivalité croissante avec la Chine et la Russie, dont les ambitions impériales ne font plus mystère.Face à cela, l'Europe — née du rejet de la force et des empires — paraît soudain appartenir à une autre époque, projetée dans un monde qu'elle peine à comprendre, et plus encore à influencer.En ce début d'année, un parfum de bascule flotte dans l'air : celui d'un ordre mondial qui se défait, et d'un autre qui s'impose, sans que nous sachions encore lequel.Alors, la loi du plus fort est-elle de retour ? Assistons-nous à la fin de l'illusion d'un monde post-impérial ? Et dans ce monde de grands fauves, l'Europe est-elle condamnée à être dévorée ?Avec : Gilles GRESSANI Président du Groupe d'études géopolitiques de l'École normale supérieure (ENS), directeur de la revue « Le Grand Continent », auteur de « L'Empire de l'ombre » aux éditions Gallimard (17.04.25)Arnaud ORAIN Historien, économiste, directeur d'études à l'EHESS et producteur du "Fil éco" sur France Culture, auteur de « Le monde confisquéEssai sur le capitalisme de la finitude (XVIᵉ - XXIᵉ siècle) » aux éditions Flammarion (22.01.25)Pierre SINGARAVÉLOU Historien spécialiste des empires coloniaux et de la mondialisation, professeur au King's College de Londres et à l'université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, directeur de l'ouvrage « Colonisations. Notre histoire » aux éditions du Seuil (15.09.23)Nastasia HADJAJI Journaliste et chroniqueuse, spécialiste de l'économie politique du numérique, co-autrice de « Apocalypse Nerds » aux éditions Divergences (19.09.25)Joséphine STARON Directrice des études et des relations internationales du think tank Synopia

In this episode from 2024, Alex speaks with Chris Coyne about the complexities and ramifications of war, focusing on the interplay between media narratives, propaganda, and the impact on civil liberties, drawing insights from Coyne's book co-authored with Abigail Hall, which is a satirical guide on war strategies and their broader societal implications. Episode Notes: Chris and Abigail's book "How to Run Wars": https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=145    1. Bruce Winton Knight's "How To Run A War": https://www.amazon.com/How-Run-War-Bruce-Knight/dp/B000OMR1KG    2. Herman and Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent": https://www.amazon.ca/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499  3. Noam Chomsky's website: https://chomsky.info/  4. Alexis de Tocqueville's biography, including reference to his distinction between hard and soft despotism: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexis-de-Tocqueville    5. Otto Neurath's "Through War Economy to Economy in Kind" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-2525-6_5  6. Abigail Hall and Christopher Coyne "Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror": https://www.amazon.ca/Manufacturing-Militarism-Government-Propaganda-Terror/dp/1503628361   

Essentiel – Le rendez-vous culture de RCJ – présenté par Sandrine Sebbane. Elle reçoit Dan Franck pour « Le roman des Artistes » paru aux éditions Grasset. À propos du livre : « Le roman des Artistes » paru aux éditions Grasset Voici le deuxième volume de la tétralogie, Le roman des Artistes, qui raconte, de 1820 à 1885, la vie de tous les grands créateurs depuis la révolution romantique jusqu'aux pastels de l'impressionnisme. Le cadre historique de ce deuxième volume, qui court de 1847 à 1860, est rythmé par les révolutions de 1848 et les changements de régimes politiques qui déterminent la vie des artistes engagés, condamnés pour les uns à l'exil (Hugo réfugié à Bruxelles puis à Jersey, enfin à Guernesey), pour les autres à la censure (le procès de Flaubert pour Madame Bovary et de Baudelaire pour Les Fleurs du mal), tandis que d'autres encore jouent un rôle historique de premier plan (Lamartine proclame la Deuxième République en 1848, Tocqueville siège à l'Assemblée, Dumas, Balzac et Eugène Sue se présentent aux élections…) Les querelles esthétiques redoublent ici les révolutions politiques. On retrouve dans cette décennie les écrivains du premier tome (Dumas, Hugo, Balzac, Lamartine, Musset, Vigny, Mérimée, Nerval, George Sand, Théophile Gautier, Chateaubriand, Baudelaire, auxquels s'ajoutent Flaubert, les frères Goncourt, Louise Colet…). Côté peinture, Delacroix et Ingres sont rejoints par Corot, Millet, Courbet… Nadar incarne les débuts de la photographie… Autant de personnages de chair et de sang dont nous partageons les combats, les amitiés, les amours passionnées, les querelles, les brouilles et les réconciliations, le génie et les bassesses. Et voici que tous ces artistes qui sont devenus pour nous des « classiques » quittent la poussière des étagères et des bancs d'école pour s'ébrouer au grand vent de l'Histoire, dans un tourbillon palpitant où ils inventent la presse et la littérature modernes, se battent sur les barricades, publient des pamphlets dévastateurs… Écrivain, scénariste, Dan Franck est l'auteur d'une trentaine de livres, sans compter les huit volumes de la série Boro en collaboration avec Jean Vautrin. Il est lauréat de nombreux prix : Prix du premier roman pour Les Calendes grecques, prix Renaudot pour La Séparation, prix des romancières pour Les Enfants, Grand prix FIPA du meilleur scénario pour Jean Moulin, Prix du meilleur documentaire pour Les aventuriers de l'art moderne, EuroFipa d'honneur…

Send us a textFreedom doesn't survive on paperwork alone; it lives or dies on the character of a people. We open Galatians 5:1 and read Joe Wolverton's stirring essay “The Manger and the Republic,” tracing a vivid line from Bethlehem to Philadelphia and asking what happens when a nation keeps the legal forms of liberty while losing the moral foundations that make liberty possible. Across history's ledger—from Rome's bread and circuses to modern screens and slogans—we examine how self‑government withers when virtue erodes and why every expansion of vice invites an expansion of state control.Together we revisit what the founders understood: rights endure because they are gifts, not grants. Tocqueville's insight on religion as the first political institution comes alive as we connect conscience to limited government, gratitude to social peace, and humility to the courage that resists tyranny. Christmas becomes more than sentiment; it is a strategy. The manger proclaims that rulers are ruled, that human dignity is not measured by compliance, and that no jail can bind a soul anchored in Christ. From carols that once rattled despots to nativity scenes that remind courthouses who truly reigns, we explore how worship shapes culture and, in turn, shapes law.We close with a practical roadmap: begin renewal at home. Let families be the first government, marriages the first covenant, and living rooms the first sanctuaries of truth and beauty. Choose prayer over propaganda, gratitude over grievance, and courage over comfort. If freedom is to endure, it will be because households, churches, and schools teach hearts to govern themselves. Listen, reflect, and share your next step toward rebuilding virtue where you live. If this message resonates, subscribe, leave a review, and pass it to a friend who's ready to trade noise for hope.Support the showhttps://www.jacksonfamilyministry.comhttps://bobslone.com/home/podcast-production/

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/dQFvWsh5XCU¿Merecen los cubanos el régimen que los oprime? Esta pregunta, tan repetida como polémica, merece ser analizada desde todos los ángulos. En este video exploramos una de las frases más frecuentes y filosas que circulan sobre Cuba: “los cubanos tienen lo que se merecen”. Una sentencia que parece cerrar cualquier debate, pero que, al mirarla de cerca, revela una trama mucho más compleja. Por un lado, revisamos las ideas de pensadores como Tocqueville, Popper y Montaner, quienes señalan que las sociedades terminan tolerando —y, en cierto modo, aceptando— los gobiernos que no combaten. Recordamos que en 1959 hubo un respaldo masivo a la entrada de Fidel Castro, impulsado por el hartazgo hacia Batista y la esperanza de una democracia renovada. La pasividad, el silencio y la adaptación, incluso por miedo, han sido combustible para la permanencia del régimen. Por el otro, analizamos la perspectiva que cuestiona esta afirmación. Inspirándonos en Arendt, Jaspers y Primo Levi, hablamos de cómo el totalitarismo destruye la capacidad de actuar políticamente, monopoliza la verdad y convierte el miedo en un modo de vida. En este marco, culpar al pueblo entero equivale a invisibilizar la diferencia entre verdugos, cómplices y víctimas. Más que dar una respuesta definitiva, este video es una invitación a reflexionar sobre las condiciones históricas, culturales y políticas que llevan a una nación a caer —y permanecer— bajo el totalitarismo, y sobre el papel que cada uno puede desempeñar para romper ese ciclo.

Kathleen O’Toole, associate vice president for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College, is joined by Christopher Nadon to discuss a recent essay he wrote on how educators are failing their students by embracing the importance of “lived experience.” Christopher Nadon (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago) has taught political philosophy and humanities at Emet Classical Academy, Claremont McKenna College, Trinity College, and Kyev-Mohyla Academy. He writes on the character and history of republican government understood as self-rule in authors such as Herodotus, Xenophon, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Sarpi, Hobbes, Locke, Tocqueville, and Lincoln. Learn more: https://k12.hillsdale.edu/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

durée : 00:58:07 - Le Souffle de la pensée - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - Convaincu d'une poussée démocratique en France inéluctable, Alexis de Tocqueville, magistrat, part pour les Etats-Unis, modèle de démocratie selon lui. En 1831, au terme d'un séjour de dix mois, il écrit "De la démocratie en Amérique". Le sociologue Gérald Bronner revient sur ce texte prophétique. - réalisation : Nicolas Berger - invités : Gérald Bronner Professeur de sociologie à Sorbonne Université

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comMark used to be the political director for ABC News and a senior political analyst at TIME magazine. Alongside John Heilemann, he co-managed Bloomberg Politics, co-hosted the shows “With All Due Respect” and “The Circus,” and co-authored Game Change and Double Down: Game Change 2012. Last year he launched the interactive live-video platform 2WAY, where he serves as editor-in-chief and hosts “The Morning Meeting” and “2WAY Tonight.” He also hosts “Next Up with Mark Halperin” on Megyn Kelly's MK Media platform.For two clips of our convo — on the bygone era of bipartisanship, and Bill Clinton's staggering talent — head to our YouTube page.Other topics: Mark's dad who worked for Kissinger, LBJ, and Nixon; debating the insularity of DC: liberal media bias; the Bork hearings; Gingrich; Limbaugh; Gennifer Flowers and Bill's affairs; Perot's breakthrough; press coverage of Dubya; his speech on stem-cell research; 9/11 and the Iraq War; the unitary executive; the unifying rhetoric of Bush and Obama; the partisan bent of Obama's stimulus; the ACA campaign; Trump at CPAC at 2011; Obama's humor and the WHCD with Trump; the crucial role of The Apprentice; the killer issue of immigration in 2016; Hillary's ineptitude; the Comey factor; the difficulty of covering Trump; the negative incentives of social media; Russiagate; the b******t Bragg case; the press failure on Biden's fitness; “cheap fakes”; the shock and awe of Trump 2.0; executive orders and tariffs; his assault on institutions; the pardon machine; the Gaza deal; the Republicans standing up to Trump over Epstein; Newsom as the Dem frontrunner; Josh Shapiro; Death By Lightning; Tocqueville; and “Drain the Swamp” from the swampiest president ever.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy. Coming up: Michel Paradis on Eisenhower, Shadi Hamid in defense of US interventionism, Simon Rogoff on the narcissism of pols, Jason Willick on trade and conservatism, Vivek Ramaswamy on the right, George Packer on his Orwell-inspired novel, and Arthur Brooks on the science of happiness. As always, please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

00:01:09 — Vietnam's Biometric Gold Panic Knight warns that Vietnam freezing bank accounts for lack of biometric ID previews the coming merger of digital ID and financial control in the U.S. 00:08:31 — Trump's Impossible Ear Injury Knight breaks down why Trump's supposed “ear wound” is anatomically impossible, framing the event as staged political theater rather than an assassination attempt. 00:14:24 — Tucker Selling a Fake Event Knight argues that Tucker Carlson is amplifying a fabricated assassination narrative built on anonymous digital submissions and intelligence-style manipulation. 01:21:47 — Tocqueville vs. Welfare State Knight contrasts America's original charity system with today's centralized welfare bureaucracy, arguing government has replaced real compassion with dependency. 01:32:06 — Big Pharma's Ozempic Price Trap Knight warns that slashed prices on Ozempic are a long-term strategy to hook the public on obesity drugs and convert food-based illness into pharmaceutical profit. 01:47:24 — Lab-Grown “Post-Cow” Milk Corporations and foreign biotech groups push synthetic milk as a food replacement, which Knight frames as a technocratic rewrite of the human diet. 02:10:00 — Food Sickness Feeds Pharma Profits Richardson explains how Big Food engineers chronic illness and Big Pharma monetizes the resulting disease, forming a self-reinforcing profit machine. 02:12:11 — Flexner Report Destroyed Natural Medicine They trace modern medicine's anti-nutrition bias to the Rockefeller/Carnegie-backed Flexner Report, which eliminated natural treatments and standardized pharma-based care. 02:22:35 — The Laetrile Origin Story Richardson recounts how early natural cancer successes were buried by medical institutions and federal agencies to protect pharmaceutical monopolies. 02:53:47 — Steve McQueen Cover-Up Richardson claims McQueen's cancer was gone after metabolic therapy, but a mysterious hospital intervention killed him—then media blamed Laetrile to preserve Big Pharma narratives. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHTFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

00:01:09 — Vietnam's Biometric Gold Panic Knight warns that Vietnam freezing bank accounts for lack of biometric ID previews the coming merger of digital ID and financial control in the U.S. 00:08:31 — Trump's Impossible Ear Injury Knight breaks down why Trump's supposed “ear wound” is anatomically impossible, framing the event as staged political theater rather than an assassination attempt. 00:14:24 — Tucker Selling a Fake Event Knight argues that Tucker Carlson is amplifying a fabricated assassination narrative built on anonymous digital submissions and intelligence-style manipulation. 01:21:47 — Tocqueville vs. Welfare State Knight contrasts America's original charity system with today's centralized welfare bureaucracy, arguing government has replaced real compassion with dependency. 01:32:06 — Big Pharma's Ozempic Price Trap Knight warns that slashed prices on Ozempic are a long-term strategy to hook the public on obesity drugs and convert food-based illness into pharmaceutical profit. 01:47:24 — Lab-Grown “Post-Cow” Milk Corporations and foreign biotech groups push synthetic milk as a food replacement, which Knight frames as a technocratic rewrite of the human diet. 02:10:00 — Food Sickness Feeds Pharma Profits Richardson explains how Big Food engineers chronic illness and Big Pharma monetizes the resulting disease, forming a self-reinforcing profit machine. 02:12:11 — Flexner Report Destroyed Natural Medicine They trace modern medicine's anti-nutrition bias to the Rockefeller/Carnegie-backed Flexner Report, which eliminated natural treatments and standardized pharma-based care. 02:22:35 — The Laetrile Origin Story Richardson recounts how early natural cancer successes were buried by medical institutions and federal agencies to protect pharmaceutical monopolies. 02:53:47 — Steve McQueen Cover-Up Exposed Richardson claims McQueen's cancer was gone after metabolic therapy, but a mysterious hospital intervention killed him—then media blamed Laetrile to preserve Big Pharma narratives. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHTFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

Alexis de Tocqueville, em sua obra clássica A Democracia na América, delineou uma visão profética sobre os caminhos da liberdade no mundo moderno. Observador atento da jovem república americana, Tocqueville acreditava que a força da democracia repousava em dois pilares invisíveis: a religiosidade do povo e sua impressionante capacidade de associação. Ele enxergou, com espantosa lucidez, que as democracias morrem não pela tirania violenta, mas por um “despotismo suave” – uma lenta atrofia da participação e da responsabilidade coletiva. Neste episódio, exploraremos como o pensamento tocquevilliano pode iluminar – e desafiar – a estrutura da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia. A proposta é dupla: de um lado, reconhecer os estímulos saudáveis à liberdade local e ao protagonismo dos membros. De outro, denunciar os riscos de um modelo eclesiástico absorver sem crítica o espírito democrático, enfraquecendo a autoridade espiritual, relativizando a missão profética e dissolvendo a identidade doutrinária.

En juin 1994, Émilie Tanay, 9 ans, est déposée par sa mère chez la famille de Jérôme Tocqueville, un camarade de classe. Ils vont assister ensemble à la kermesse de fin d'année. La petite Émilie est souffrante. La maman confie aux parents Tocqueville les médicaments qu'elle doit prendre : des sachets d'Exomuc et un flacon de Josacine. Brutalement, elle s'effondre et perd connaissance… Que s'est-il passé ? Dans cette affaire que Caroline Nogueras va vous raconter, il y a de l'injustice, des tromperies, et des  approximations de procédure... Enfin la vérité ? Depuis le premier jour de cette enquête, les gendarmes et les juges se basent sur un présupposé : Émilie est morte après avoir bu une cuillerée de Josacine empoisonnée. Et si c'était faux ? Le poison était-il vraiment dans l'antibiotique au moment où elle le prenait ? Et si la Josacine n'avait rien à voir là-dedans ? Et si Émilie avait ingéré autre chose dans la maison des Tocqueville ? Dans cet épisode, Caroline Nogueras reçoit Jean-Michel Dumay, ancien journaliste au Monde qui a publié Le Poison du doute en 2003.  Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Tiphaine Pioger Voix : Caroline Nogueras Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En juin 1994, Émilie Tanay, 9 ans, est déposée par sa mère chez la famille de Jérôme Tocqueville, un camarade de classe. Ils vont assister ensemble à la kermesse de fin d'année. La petite Émilie est souffrante. La maman confie aux parents Tocqueville les médicaments qu'elle doit prendre : des sachets d'Exomuc et un flacon de Josacine. Brutalement, elle s'effondre et perd connaissance… Que s'est-il passé ? Dans cette affaire que Caroline Nogueras va vous raconter, il y a de l'injustice, des tromperies, et des  approximations de procédure... La contre-enquête Samedi 24 mai 1997. Cour d'assises de la Seine Maritime. Quelques minutes après minuit.  Jean-Marc Duperrois se lève. Après trois semaines d'audience, la cour s'apprête à prononcer son verdict. Les mots du président claquent d'un coup sec : « COUPABLE ». 20 ans de réclusion.  Dans son box, le condamné s'évanouit. Autour de lui, on entend les cris de la douleur et de l'injustice. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Tiphaine Pioger Voix : Caroline Nogueras Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En juin 1994, Émilie Tanay, 9 ans, est déposée par sa mère chez la famille de Jérôme Tocqueville, un camarade de classe. Ils vont assister ensemble à la kermesse de fin d'année. La petite Émilie est souffrante. La maman confie aux parents Tocqueville les médicaments qu'elle doit prendre : des sachets d'Exomuc et un flacon de Josacine. Brutalement, elle s'effondre et perd connaissance… Que s'est-il passé ? Dans cette affaire que Caroline Nogueras va vous raconter, il y a de l'injustice, des tromperies, et des  approximations de procédure... L'amant désespéré La garde à vue des parents d'Emilie n'a pas donné grand chose. Mais Corinne et Denis Tanay ne sont pas les seuls en garde à vue. Dans les salles d'audition, il y a aussi les époux Tocqueville. Jean-Michel Tocqueville raconte qu'elle a pris son sirop, qu'il n'avait pas bon goût, qu'elle est allée se rincer la bouche au robinet. C'est lui aussi qui la voit tomber dans le garage, qui va la prendre dans ses bras, la déposer sur le canapé. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Tiphaine Pioger Voix : Caroline Nogueras Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En juin 1994, Émilie Tanay, 9 ans, est déposée par sa mère chez la famille de Jérôme Tocqueville, un camarade de classe. Ils vont assister ensemble à la kermesse de fin d'année. La petite Émilie est souffrante. La maman confie aux parents Tocqueville les médicaments qu'elle doit prendre : des sachets d'Exomuc et un flacon de Josacine. Brutalement, elle s'effondre et perd connaissance… Que s'est-il passé ? Dans cette affaire que Caroline Nogueras va vous raconter, il y a de l'injustice, des tromperies, et des  approximations de procédure... Du cyanure dans l'antibiotique Nous sommes le samedi 11 juin 1994. Il est 15 heures. Émilie s'apprête à passer le week-end chez son copain de classe, Jérôme Tocqueville. Corinne Tanay ne peut pas refuser ce week-end à sa fille. À Gruchet-le-Valasse, entre Le Havre et Rouen, c'est la fête médiévale. Avec Jérôme et son petit frère, ils vont se déguiser et déambuler dans les rues du village. Émilie a prévu de porter un costume de bouffon ! Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Tiphaine Pioger Voix : Caroline Nogueras Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Découvrez bientôt une nouvelle saison de Home(icides). En juin 1994, Émilie Tanay, 9 ans, est déposée par sa mère chez la famille de Jérôme Tocqueville, un camarade de classe. Ils vont assister ensemble à la kermesse de fin d'année à Saint-Jean-de-la-Neuville. La petite Émilie est souffrante. La maman confie aux parents Tocqueville les médicaments qu'elle doit prendre : des sachets d'Exomuc et un flacon de Josacine. Un quart d'heure plus tard, elle s'effondre brutalement et perd connaissance… Que s'est-il passé ? Dans cette affaire que je vais vous raconter, il y a de l'injustice, des tromperies, et des  approximations de procédure... Émilie, plus que tous les autres, va vivre la plus insupportable des injustices. Rendez-vous sur toutes les plateformes d'écoute ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ένας νεαρός Γάλλος φτάνει στην Αμερική το 1831. Υποτίθεται ότι ταξιδεύει για να μελετήσει τις φυλακές στην πραγματικότητα, ψάχνει το μέλλον της δημοκρατίας. Ο Αλεξίς ντε Τοκβίλ γυρίζει τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, μιλάει με δικαστές, αγρότες, εμπόρους, ιερείς. Και γράφει το πιο διορατικό βιβλίο για το πώς λειτουργεί μια κοινωνία ελεύθερων ανθρώπων. Εκεί όπου όλοι είναι ίσοι, αλλά κανείς δεν είναι ίδιος.Στο τέταρτο επεισόδιο των Βιβλίων της Ελευθερίας, περνάμε τον Ατλαντικό για να δούμε πώς η ελευθερία οργανώθηκε σε θεσμούς και γιατί, ακόμα και σήμερα, η Αμερική παραμένει το πιο επιτυχημένο πολιτικό πείραμα της νεωτερικότητας.ΣυντελεστέςΑφήγηση: Επιστήμη ΜπινάζηSound design: Δάφνη Γερογιάννη

«Il est le plus profond penseur de la démocratie», écrit l'invité du magazine IDÉES cette semaine, Françoise Mélonio, -spécialiste reconnue de Tocqueville, éditrice de ses textes dans la collection «Pléiade» - dans sa biographie magistrale de l'auteur de «La Démocratie en Amérique».  Loin des clichés ressassés et des aphorismes figés, elle redonne vie à un homme complexe, inquiet, parfois maladroit, mais toujours lucide face aux bouleversements de son temps, un homme de son siècle, le XIXè dont la pensée résonne plus que jamais aujourd'hui. Elle en parle avec passion au micro de Pierre-Édouard Deldique. Tocqueville est présenté comme un aristocrate enraciné, «une relique de l'ancien monde» tiraillé entre son héritage familial et son engagement dans la modernité démocratique. Françoise Mélonio explore les tensions entre son statut social et ses convictions politiques, révélant un penseur en perpétuel dialogue avec les paradoxes de son époque. Elle analyse aussi son parcours politique, conseiller général, député, éphémère ministre des Affaires étrangères. Le livre retrace ses voyages aux États-Unis, qui nourrissent son œuvre phare «De la démocratie en Amérique» (1835), et son analyse du passage de l'Ancien Régime à la Révolution française. Tocqueville apparaît comme un visionnaire, inquiet de l'individualisme croissant et du «despotisme doux», mais confiant dans les promesses de la liberté. Son analyse des mécanismes de la société américaine n'a rien perdu de sa pertinence. Françoise Mélonio met en lumière la force littéraire de Tocqueville, souvent éclipsée par son rôle d'analyste politique et souligne l'unité entre l'homme privé et l'acteur public, entre le penseur et l'écrivain. Ce livre s'impose déjà comme une référence incontournable pour comprendre Tocqueville au-delà de son image d'icône intellectuelle. Il parle autant aux historiens qu'aux citoyens soucieux de penser la démocratie contemporaine. Toute personne soucieuse de comprendre la crise démocratique du moment doit le lire. «J'ai pensé cent fois que si je dois laisser quelque chose de moi dans ce monde, ce sera bien plus par ce que j'aurais écrit que par ce que j'aurai fait», écrivait-il.   Programmation musicale - Robert Shaw chorale - Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere - Nassima - Solo instrumental au violon alto.

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – In that Congress, the parties like to blame each other, either for the spending or the tax cuts. But our deficits have been a bipartisan problem for decades. And as many of the American people who complain about the spending and deficits, we seem to forget that it is We the People who not only place those members of Congress, but we...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – In that Congress, the parties like to blame each other, either for the spending or the tax cuts. But our deficits have been a bipartisan problem for decades. And as many of the American people who complain about the spending and deficits, we seem to forget that it is We the People who not only place those members of Congress, but we...

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En 1831, Tocqueville part explorer un pays sans roi, sans noblesse, sans traditions anciennes. Il y cherche les promesses de la démocratie, il y découvre aussi ses failles.Mention légales : Vos données de connexion, dont votre adresse IP, sont traités par Radio Classique, responsable de traitement, sur la base de son intérêt légitime, par l'intermédiaire de son sous-traitant Ausha, à des fins de réalisation de statistiques agréées et de lutte contre la fraude. Ces données sont supprimées en temps réel pour la finalité statistique et sous cinq mois à compter de la collecte à des fins de lutte contre la fraude. Pour plus d'informations sur les traitements réalisés par Radio Classique et exercer vos droits, consultez notre Politique de confidentialité.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Frankie Solarik's sources of inspiration range from molecular gastronomist Ferran Adrià to Marco Moreira, the chef of Tocqueville, a fine-dining restaurant in New York City, where he was deemed too scruffy to work in the front of the house and was shunted into the kitchen. He's the author of “The Bar Chef: A Modern Approach to Cocktails,” published in 2013, and was a judge on the Netflix series "Drink Masters," whose artistic director, Tim Luke, also developed Prequel.Solarik recently discussed his career, his approach to mixology, and his advice for operators who want to open in New York.

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy.Before embarking on a spirited bout of rank punditry, we take a step back and talk about the Staple Singers, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Zohran, and giving a damn about both your "fellow man" and democracy. Then, we walk you through the latest catalogue of horrors: Hegseth's lame TED talk in front of the generals, the menacing yet comically inept dimestore Gestapo that is ICE, the shutdown, and more!Sources:Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835, 1840)Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)Jasper Craven, "Battle of the Sexes," The Baffler, Sept 2025"Deafies for Zohran" (YouTube)"Things Can Change" (X)

In this 7th installment of the God is Red series, Taylor Keen (Omaha / Cherokee) takes us deep into his book, Rediscovering Turtle Island. We discuss the idea of Indigenous civilization, Alexis De Tocqueville's view of the "pride of the native american," and why an Indigenous Cosmogenesis is so important for our world today--that the divine lives in all of us. Whether you're indigenous to the Land below your feet or not, these ancient stories offer profound perspective on what it means to live in right relationship with land, community, and Spirit. They remind us that mythology isn't just about preserving the past—it's about creating possibilities for a more beautiful future.Learn more about Taylor's work HERE.Purchase Rediscovering Turtle Island HERE.Learn more about Daniel's work HERE.

Can education actually exist without tradition? In the equalizing system of democracy, is education ever really valuable? Should we just give up on the whole idea of a university altogether? Join us for this and more as we continue discussing Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind!Follow us on X! Give us your opinions here!

durée : 00:52:21 - Répliques - par : Alain Finkielkraut - Tocqueville découvre la démocratie en Amérique et en pressent l'irrésistible montée en Europe. Alain Finkielkraut en débat avec Françoise Mélonio et Sophie Vanden Abeele-Marchal, deux spécialistes de son œuvre visionnaire. - réalisation : François Caunac - invités : Françoise Mélonio Professeure de Littérature à la Sorbonne, chargée de cours à l'IEP; Sophie Vanden Abeele-Marchal Maître de conférences à la Faculté des lettres de la Sorbonne

How should we punish criminals? In Impermissible Punishments, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Judith Resnik, provides a historical narrative of punishment in European and American prisons. Tracing the evolution from Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian Panopticon through post-World War II human rights frameworks, Resnik argues that punishment systems developed as a transatlantic rather than uniquely American project. Her analysis reveals how prisoners themselves, not reformers, first articulated the concept of retained rights during detention. Resnik's new book chronicles a crucial divergence after the 1980s, when European systems maintained stronger human rights commitments while American prisons retreated from recognizing prisoners as rights-bearing individuals, thereby making prison a problem for its democracy. 1. Prison systems developed as a transatlantic project, not American innovation Punishment theories and practices emerged from shared Enlightenment thinking across Europe and America in the 1700s-1800s. Figures like Beccaria, Bentham, and Tocqueville created interconnected ideas about rational, purposeful punishment that crossed national boundaries.2. Prisoners, not reformers, first articulated the concept of retained rights While reformers debated how to punish effectively, it was people in detention themselves—like Winston Talley in Arkansas in 1965—who first argued they retained fundamental rights during incarceration. This represented a revolutionary shift from viewing prisoners as "civilly dead."3. World War II created the crucial turning point for prisoners' rights The horrors of concentration camps and fascist regimes made clear the dangers of treating any group as less than human. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 1955 UN prison rules marked the formal recognition of prisoners as rights-bearing individuals.4. America and Europe diverged after the 1980s on prisoner treatment While both regions initially embraced prisoners' rights in the 1960s-70s, the U.S. retreated during the "war on crime" era. Europe maintained stronger human rights commitments, while America expanded punitive measures like solitary confinement and mass incarceration.5. Prison conditions reflect broader democratic health Resnik argues that how a society treats its most marginalized members—prisoners, immigrants, minorities—indicates the strength of its democratic institutions. Authoritarian treatment of any group threatens the rights of all citizens in a democratic system.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comJill is a writer and scholar. She's a professor of American history at Harvard, a professor of law at Harvard Law, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. She's also the host of the podcast “X-Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story.” Her many books include These Truths: A History of the United States (which I reviewed for the NYT in 2017) and her new one, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution — out in a few days; pre-order now.For two clips of our convo — on FDR's efforts to bypass the Constitution, and the worst amendment we've had — head to our YouTube page.Other topics: raised by public school teachers near Worcester; dad a WWII vet; her struggles with Catholicism as a teen (and my fundamentalism then); joining ROTC; the origins of the Constitution; the Enlightenment; Locke; Montesquieu; the lame Articles of Confederation; the 1776 declaration; Paine's Common Sense; Madison; Jefferson; Hamilton; Adams; New England town meetings; state constitutional conventions; little known conventions by women and blacks; the big convention in Philly and its secrecy; the slave trade; the Three-Fifths Clause; amendment provisions; worries over mob rule; the Electoral College; jury duty; property requirements for voting; the Jacksonian Era; Tocqueville; the Civil War; Woodrow Wilson; the direct election of senators; James Montgomery Beck (“Mr Constitution”); FDR's court-packing plan; Eleanor's activism; Prohibition and its repeal; the Warren Court; Scalia; executive orders under Trump; and gauging the intent of the Founders.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy. Coming up: John Ellis on Trump's mental health, Michael Wolff on Epstein, Karen Hao on artificial intelligence, Katie Herzog on drinking your way sober, Michel Paradis on Eisenhower, Charles Murray on religion, David Ignatius on the Trump effect globally, and Arthur Brooks on the science of happiness. As always, please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time. A friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, an ally of Frederick Douglass, and an adviser to Abraham Lincoln, Sumner helped the Union win the Civil War and pass into law the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, the Freedmen's Bureau, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. In his new book Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, Zaakir Tameez presents Sumner as one of America's forgotten founding fathers, a constitutional visionary who helped to rewrite the post–Civil War Constitution and give birth to modern civil rights law. He also argues that Sumner was a gay man who battled with love and heartbreak at a time when homosexuality wasn't accepted. And he explores Sumner's critical partnerships with the nation's first generation of Black lawyers and civil rights leaders, whose legal contributions to Reconstruction have been overlooked for far too long. Join us as Tameez brings back to life one of America's most inspiring statesmen, whose formidable ideas remain relevant to a nation still divided over questions of race, democracy, and constitutional law. The Commonwealth Club of California is a nonprofit public forum; we welcome donations made during registration to support the production of our programming. A Humanities Member-led Forum program. Forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of The Commonwealth Club, and they cover a diverse range of topics. Learn more about our Forums. Tameez photo by Arifa Ali, courtesy the speaker. Commonwealth Club World Affairs is a public forum. Any views expressed in our programs are those of the speakers and not of Commonwealth Club World Affairs. OrganizerGeorge Hammond  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is political rhetoric broken – and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions (Cambridge University Press, 2022) returns to the origins of rhetoric to recover the central place of eloquence in political thought. Eloquence, for the orators of classical antiquity, emerged from rhetorical relationships that exposed both speaker and audience to risk. Through close readings of Cicero – and his predecessors, rivals, and successors – political theorist and former speechwriter Rob Goodman tracks the development of this ideal, in which speech is both spontaneous and stylized, and in which the pursuit of eloquence mitigates political inequalities. He goes on to trace the fierce disputes over Ciceronian speech in the modern world through the work of such figures as Burke, Macaulay, Tocqueville, and Schmitt, explaining how rhetorical risk-sharing has broken down. Words on Fire offers a powerful critique of today's political language – and shows how the struggle over the meaning of eloquence has shaped our world. The book was the finalist for the C.B. Macpherson Prize from the Canadian Political Science Association. Rob Goodman is an Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University and a Core Curriculum instructor at Columbia University. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked as a speechwriter for U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Honer and Senator Chris Dodd. Goodman has published widely in leading academic journals. He has also co-edited ‘Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective' published by Oxford University Press, 2024. Goodman is also the author of ‘Not Here' (Simon & Schuster Canada, 2023), a book on democratic erosion in Canada and the United States, which was a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing from the Writers' Trust of Canada. Ayushi Singh is a graduate student at Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

If you want to watch this interview on YouTube you can do that here ! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more No news segment today but I do have a great convo with Fugelsang! Get John's new book ! He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal's ‘Just for Laughs' Festival, HBO's U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians'. Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth' starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts. He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin,  Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,  Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner.  His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar.  This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance." His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.   Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.'   The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.   Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

Continuing the counterprogramming tradition, Phillip Muñoz, the Tocqueville professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the remarkable revolutions of the American Founding, the allure of postliberalism, and the proper place of religious authority. Plus: Their thoughts on cultural shifts and virtue. Show Notes:— Phillip Muñoz's bio— Muñoz's National Affairs article—Jonah's Next 250 article on the American Revolution—Irving Kristol's article on the free society The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including Jonah's G-File newsletter, regular livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're delighted to begin a new series of episodes under the Free Speech Forward banner, an exploration of free speech and its connection to the Declaration of Independence. This series is a celebration of the Declaration in honor of its upcoming anniversary, a project conducted in partnership by 1776 Forward, the Institute for Liberal Values, and the Free Society Coalition. Today's guest is Marsha Familaro Enright, an educational entrepreneur and thought leader in independent thinking and self-reliance. As the founder of Reliance College and the creator of The Great Connections Seminars, she's spent decades revolutionizing education to help young minds become leaders of their own lives, learning how to live in and advocate for a free society. Her programs aim to provide what Alexis de Tocqueville called "an apprenticeship of freedom."As we come up on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. founding, understanding its history, ideas, and impact is more crucial than ever and education plays a deep role. Aiming to open in the fall of 2026, Reliance College is a uniquely designed college program combining a rigorous liberal arts and sciences course of study with practical work in the student's area of professional interest. It is an expansion of the 16-year-old week-long The Great Connections Summer Seminar. Year after year since 2009, 75% of participants have testified that their lives have been transformed by this program. It is designed for young adults (ages 16-24) who want to develop independent thinking, leadership skills, and intellectual confidence. Hosted in Chicago, this immersive experience helps participants engage deeply with great ideas, sharpen critical thinking skills, and connect with like-minded peers—all in an exciting, discussion-driven learning environment. 

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, it's time for a Levin surge to tell your member of Congress to vote yes for the big, beautiful bill. Yes, there are certain issues that matter to us all that are not addressed as we would wish, but there are many very important provisions in this bill that must be enacted from tax cuts and more resources for detaining and deporting criminal illegal aliens! There is a meniscal majority in the House. If there was a larger majority the outcome might be different, but IF is not reality. In ‘On Power' negative power is maintained through manipulative communication techniques like deception, fearmongering, and intimidation, designed to suppress independent thought and arouse prejudice. This approach aims to control populations by undermining morality and open democratic societies, denying citizens the information needed for informed decisions. Such language seeks to incite destructive actions that serve the demagogue's goals, corrupting the legitimate consent of the governed. This is exactly what's going on today with Democrats such as Rep Hakeem Jeffries, Rep Nancy Pelosi and Zohran Mamdani. The Democrat party sounds like a Stalinist party. Later, the district attorney is incompetent and immoral for striking a plea deal that allows Bryan Kohberger to live, despite the defense's claims of innocence and attempts to distract from the evidence. It's unjust that taxpayers must fund Kohberger's life in prison while good people lost their lives too soon. The legal system's handling of this case was utterly immoral. Also, in Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville warns that America's democracy could falter under the weight of a vast administrative state. He describes this state as an overreaching, paternalistic power that, while mild and providential, seeks to manage every aspect of citizens' lives—security, needs, pleasures, and property. We see this happening in NYC. Finally, Rep Jim Jordan calls in to explain that the big, beautiful bill is as good as it gets. You know this is a good bill because Democrats hate it.  This bill empowers Americans through tax cuts, including eliminating taxes on tips, promoting school choice, and implementing work requirements for welfare recipients.  This bill strengthens border security with more ICE agents, detention spaces, and funding for the wall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, President Trump deserves great credit for the trillions of dollars he's bringing into our country from foreign governments and overseas corporations! It's absolutely unprecedented! Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia included some of the lines used by the Soros-Koch isolationist crowd about neocons and interventionists, but the irony is that it was given in the context of a globalist outreach effort to make economic and military deals with and between Middle East monarchies/dictatorships and the biggest of America's globalists/internationalists/corporatists. Also, in On Power, there's a stark contrast between America's founding, rooted in a blend of faith and Enlightenment ideals, and the centralized control sought by political Islam, as highlighted by Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim reformist. Jasser argues that Islamism, unlike the Judeo-Christian principles shaping America's Constitution, rejects individual liberty and enforces a monolithic faith, often tied to anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agendas, as seen in groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. Drawing from Alexis de Tocqueville and Jasser's insights, Mark explores how Islamists, inspired by figures like Sayyid Qutb, aim to dismantle Western society, viewed as ignorant of divine guidance, to impose a rigid “pure Islam.” This clash of ideologies, coupled with the deceptive language of tyrannies like Islamism and Marxism, underscores the battle for liberty and the soul of nations. Later, neocons, many of whom were former Jewish Democrats, left the Democratic Party and adopted a hawkish foreign policy stance. While many are no longer alive, today, some avoid blaming Jews for pushing war, instead pointing to neocons as the instigators. Opposing Iran's nuclear ambitions is patriotism, not neoconservatism, due to Iran's terrorist activities and history of violating agreements. Finally, Ken Hartman, Founder & President of Our Community Salutes, calls in to discuss his national nonprofit organization, which is dedicated to recognizing and supporting high school seniors who plan to enlist in the U.S. Armed Services after graduation.  Their goal is to get 250,000 Americans to sign a thank you card to our nation's newest enlistees in the military. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices