America Out Loud PULSE

America Out Loud PULSE


Are we verging upon Tocqueville’s worst nightmare?

February 04, 2024

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Harvey Risch – We reflect on how Tocqueville had understood the toxic administrative state in late 18th-century France, and in his travels around the US in the 1830s, his apprehension that the administrative state would become toxic here too. His observations well predate the 1949 writing of Orwell's novel 1984 but lead to the same warnings that we are mired in government control over so...