Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe

“Let our motto be, as once it was, ‘Don’t tread on me!’ And let our virtue be individual responsibility.”

I had the pleasure of speaking recently with Paul Rahe, who is the author of Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocquville and the Modern Prospect (Yale University Press: 2009).
Professor Rahe’s book is the first of three [...]