In Depth: Paul Rahe On Soft Despotism
Taken from the June 13th edition of PJM Political on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS Channel, Ed Driscoll’s lengthy interview With Paul Rahe, professor of history and political science at Hillsdale College, and the author of the new book, Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect, had to be extensively edited to fit in with the rest of the material on this week’s show.
But click here to hear the original interview in its entirety:
(Want to download instead of streaming? Click here to download the 30-minute, 28 MB podcast. Or click here to download the 9 MB lo-fi edition.)
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