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Tocqueville’s Warning: What Democracy in America Saw Coming

Broadcast from Chesterton Radio, a small independent listener-supported station in Atchison, Kansas, this episode explores one of the most important political books ever written: Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.

In this deep-dive discussion, our hosts examine Tocqueville’s remarkable journey through the United States in the 1830s and the profound insights he recorded about American democracy.

More than a travel diary, Democracy in America is a prophetic analysis of the forces shaping democratic societies. Tocqueville wrote about the power of religion in sustaining liberty, the…

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