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This Presidents’ Day, the wisdom we need comes from an unexpected source

The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring.

The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The history of democracy since the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America, reveals a far more complicated picture. And the future, author Chilton Williamson Jr. demonstrates, appears rather unpromising for democratic institutions around the world.

Does capitalism corrode culture? I think the answer is yes and no.

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Our constitutional order grows not out of liberal ideology but from roots in nature and historical experience.