Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Ltd.

Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 book Democracy in America has been coming up a lot recently on conservative talk shows (such as Rush Limbaugh) and in books (such as Mark R. Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny), especially as it relates to conservative principles, and I realized that while I am familiar with de Tocqueville in a general sense, I’ve never actually read the book. In order to study the book and share my findings, I started a new website, detocqueville.us.

The project will be a read-through of the book with commentary of both a historical and contemporary nature. I’d also like to get a discussion going about the book, especially about how de Tocqueville’s analysis of American government compares to today, so please leave comments and such at the site. I’ll put up a post here at rosenguild.com when I have the first substantive article up; I’m hoping to do about one chapter a week (or more if a chapter is shorter, or I end up with more time).