Panel 6 - Confronting the Tocqueville Problem: The Deadly Bet

Panel 6 - Confronting the Tocqueville Problem: The Deadly Bet

Walt was deeply troubled by the annus horribilis 1968-69 in Vietnam and at Cornell, which highlighted both the significance of “the Tocqueville problem” regarding the durability of American democracy and the importance of speaking truth to power.

 

Presented by Eric Alterman ['82], CUNY-Brooklyn College, and Richard Immerman ['71], Temple University.