Toqueville on Democracy in America

The great advantage of the Americans is, that they have arrived at a state of democracy without having to endure a democratic revolution; and that they are born equal, instead of becoming so – Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in AmericaHonestly, I’m very disturbed by the latter part of the quote , “that they (Americans) are [...]

On Liberalism

In his influential work, THE LIBERAL TRADITION IN AMERICA :An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution , Louis Hartz defines liberalism in the following words, One can use the term ‘Liberal Reform’ to describe the Western movement which emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century to adapt classical liberalism to the purposes [...]

W.E. B. Dubois (1868 -1963)

Source: W.E.B.Dubois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on Church Street on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, at the south-western edge of Massachusetts, to Alfred Du Bois and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois, whose February 5, 1867, wedding had been announced in the Berkshire Courier. Alfred Du Bois had been born in Haiti. [...]