Tocqueville and Association

by | Mar 11, 2025 | civic virtue, Tocqueville

Daniel Stid at AEI:   Tocqueville’s concern about the government’s domestication of nonprofits would no doubt increase after learning how many of them rely on public funding from different levels of government (over and above the subsidy they get via the tax...

Common Purpose

by | Sep 29, 2020 | Character, Civic Education, civic virtue

Daniel Stid at The Art of Association: We need some hope and a sense of how we might regain our footing as citizens to renew the world’s oldest democracy.   We can find them in a recent report from the American Academy of Arts and Science’s Commission on...