Tocqueville

Since my last post, I've read an issue of Hello Canada, two issues of OK Magazine, an issue of The New Yorker, three issues of Eclectic Reading, and two issues of The Economist. I also started reading more of Tocqueville -- his analysis of the United States really is outstanding. Some BBC reporter whose name I forget now said that Tocqueville wrote the best book ever written on the United States, and he was not just the reason I am reading Tocqueville, but he was also right. The second volume of De la democratie en Amerique is not only excellent even today, it is free of anti-Americanism, something quite rare now. I also read Tocqueville's memoirs.

Tocqueville, Bossuet

Since my last post,I read an issue of Electic Reading, an issue of The New Yorker, an issue of Vanity Fair, and an issue of The New Scientist. I'm in the middle of an issue of The Economist. I also read My Memories of Six Reigns, by HH Princess Louise, which was bland in the extreme, the rest of Bossuet, sermons, panegyrics, and essays, and then the first part of Tocqueville's book on the US. There was nothing striking in any of this that I want to share.