Commentary

• Citizenship as a Vocation

  - Patrick J. Deneen, "Citizenship as a Vocation" in Democracy and Its Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Political Life Today, ed. Peter Augustine Lawler.  (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004)
  Excerpt: I. The Restless American Tocqueville was among the first commentators on the American scene to speak of the :restlessness,” or “restiveness” of democratic man.  Tormented by the openness of democratic society born of the universal… More