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Thursday, April 23, 2020

FSF's Randolph May in Real Clear Markets: "A Tocquevillian View of Reinvigorating the United States"

On April 22, Real Clear Markets published an op-ed by Free State Foundation President Randolph May describing how America best can transcend the Coronavirus outbreak.

"A Tocquevillian View of Reinvigorating the United States" makes the case that, although government has a limited role to play, it is private associations and voluntary activity – quintessentially American concepts nineteenth-century political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville characterized as "associations of a thousand other kinds" in his seminal work, Democracy in America (1831) – that hold the key to our nation's timely and complete recovery.

A brief synopsis cannot capture its full import. To read the essay in its entirety, please click here.