My friend Johnny Burtka has released a new episode of ISI's Project Cosmos series, this time discussing Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. The panel is really compelling because it includes our own Yuval Levin, frequent contributor Vincent Muñoz, along with Sarah Gustafson and Sohrab Ahmari.

I've found my own understanding of de Tocqueville and his book transformed by reading another book, Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious by de Tocqueville's traveling companion Gustave de Beaumont. The two men accompanied each other on both trips but produced separate books, both of which were phenomenally successful in France.

But the two books could not

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