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Khalil Habib Reflects On Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America’

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Guests: Khalil Habib, Tracy Lee Simmons, & Andrew Russell

Host Scot Bertram talks with Khalil Habib, the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History and professor of history at Hillsdale College, about Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and which of his observations about America ring true today. Author and journalist Tracy Lee Simmons, discusses the decline of culture and his book On Being Civilized: A Few Lines Amid the Breakage. And Andrew Russell, associate professor of biology at Hillsdale College, describes his research into biofilms and beer taps.

Host:
Scot Bertram