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A Global Conversation with Olga Levina

A Global Conversation with Olga Levina

What are these symptoms? Anxiety, flashes of anger, insomnia...is it peri-menopause or the fall of democracy?

ASU Radio Online

Democracy in America was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. It is a classic work on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses as seen from a European point of view. It is also regarded as a pioneering work of sociology. (Summary based on Wikipedia)

When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after his visit, still remain surprisingly relevant today. (Summary by the Bookworm)

Democracy in America is a well-produced dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book of the same name. These fourteen, thirty-minute episodes follow Tocqueville and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, from their landing in New York in May of 1831 through their departure nine months later, with the final episode twenty years later. The series is an educational one, produced Division of General Education of New York University in conjunction with the Fund for Adult Education.Although educational the production are far from dry, pedantic lectures. They are high quality programs with music, ...

“The West Wing” meets “Blazing Saddles” in this raucous political satire that follows the nefarious hijinks of the newly-elected Spade Administration. A dozen actors come together to deliver three smashing episodes of fearless and funny AF content that is for MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.

How can democracy be renewed and defended today? A collaboration of the Thomas Mann House, the Goethe Institute, Wunderbar Together, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.