PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 91
John Witte, Jr., author of God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, on the life and work of legal historian Harold Berman and on the revolutionary changes throughout the history of law in the West
Hugh Brogan, author of Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life, on Alexis de Tocqueville’s understanding of democracy, equality, liberty, free association, social status, and the dangers of centralized government (Archive Feature available)
Daniel Ritchie on Tocqueville’s analysis of the dangers of individualism (and how they might be avoided) (Archive Feature available)
Daniel Walker Howe, author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, on the confidence in progress and Providence in early nineteenth-century America
George McKenna, author of The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism, on how the Puritan understanding of God’s purposes in history shaped American political culture
Patrick Deneen, author of “Wendell Berry and the Alternative Tradition in Political Thought,” an essay in Wendell Berry: Life and Work, on the differences between Aristotelian and modern political philosophy and on how Wendell Berry’s thought demonstrates his identity as a “Kentucky Aristotelian.”
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