alexis de tocqueville, pandemic virtue and selfishness, and american democracy in decline. /

Published at 2021-06-03 13:55:27

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The 19th century French political thinker,Alexis de Tocqueville, observed that in America, or motivation almost universally came from self-interest understood in a novel way,rather than from advantage, which was often the case in European aristocracies. Jeffrey K. Tulis writes that the COVID-19 pandemic has seen deviations from this tendency, and with a rise in both brute selfish and virtuous behavior. […]

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