Democracy and Its Friendly Critics

Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College.

• 1 What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today2 National Character and National Soul3 Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Kolnai, Tocqueville, and the Moral Foundation of Democracy4 Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism5 The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot6 Alexis de Tocqueville on the Incommensurability of America's Founding Principles7 Citizenship as a Vocation8 Compassionate Conservatism and Biotechnology: Some Tocquevillian Reflections9 Religion and the Limits of Liberal Pluralism10 Profiles in American Thomism11 Christian Love and the Foundations of American Politics: Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln12 Democracy's Darkside? Robert Kraynak's Catholic Reflections on the Soul in the Liberal Democratic Dispensation13 Machiavelli Meets the Mob: Palminteri'sA Bronx Tale

There are many ways to read Tocqueville, but the authors of the essays collected in this extraordinary volume read him in the best way — as a partner in conversation about some of the most important issues confronting us today: democracy, America, and the fate of democracy in America.