Should the failure of European multiculturalism and Rawlsian political liberalism to answer the challenge of illiberal religion be a cause for dismay for liberals today? Or does liberalism, especially in its American variety, posses theoretical and practical resources that are not exhausted by...

Alexis de Tocqueville views the early to middle of the 19th century as a period of great revolutionary transition from age of aristocracy to the democratic era. In Democracy In America, Tocqueville's project, in turn, was to conceptualize the democratic institutional and cultural factors that...