Philosophy.

Tocqueville, Burke, the conservative intellectual tradition.

Beneath the daily news, Dinesh is making an argument from a tradition: Tocqueville on soft despotism, Burke on inherited wisdom, the classical anthropology the founders shared. The long reads on the podcast are where this tradition gets unpacked at length.

Tocqueville saw the soft despotism of our era almost two centuries before it arrived.

Browse the show and the full bibliography for Dinesh’s most-developed work on this subject.

Founding-Era History

Madison, Hamilton, the Federalist Papers, the constitutional argument.

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Faith & Culture

Apologetics, the Christian intellectual tradition, the questions only theology answers.

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History

Long-arc reads from someone who won't discuss politics without the context.

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