The year-end roundup of the newsletter from Carnegie India s Political Economy team features seven analytical essays and reviews each to highlight the best of the year.
Podcasts - The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville (Guest: Olivier Zunz) heartland.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heartland.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Every time you open a newspaper, head to Twitter, or listen to a favorite political podcast or radio show, one issue eventually pops up: democracy, particularly American democracy. For those worried about the future of our democracy or even for those like me, who believe our democratic institutions remain strong, Olivier Zunz s new work, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville, may have arrived just in time. Few have ever had the combination of intellect, wealth, and time to spend most of their life considering the meaning and purpose of democracy like the 19th-century French aristocrat.