#toqueville

[johnnyprimecc]

Bromantic holiday dinner at @15eastattocqueville with the @goldenpacking gang, @meatdavid @lup_the_golden_bucher @fleshandbloodsocial - that beautiful 21-day dry aged strip was incredible, but don't sleep on the roast chicken or smoked duck breast either. Delicious meal. 1. Strip 2. Guillotine Cocktail 3. Pao de Queijo 4. Yellowtail 5. Uni Carbonara 6. Chicken 7. Duck 8. Pineapple & Lime Sorbet 9. Exterior 10. Interior #steak #steaks #steaknight #mediumrare #stripsteak #nystripsteak #newyorkstripsteak #meat #beef #beefitswhatsfordinner #dryaged #duck #chicken #carnivore #uni #seaurchin #pasta #toqueville (at 15 East Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmO4v7dOUTg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[christian-dubuis-santini]

«Il est difficile de concevoir comment des hommes qui ont entièrement renoncé à l'habitude de se diriger eux-mêmes pourraient réussir à bien choisir ceux qui doivent les conduire.»

Toqueville avait raison, une société d’esclaves n’a jamais que les maîtres qu��elle mérite.

[aritradattta]

Friedrich Von Hayek

Friedrich August Von Hayek was a phenomenal Economist . He is marked as one of the greatest economist of all times .

Friedrich Hayek was born on 8th May in Vienna, 1899 . He was the oldest of the three brothers named Heinrich Hayek & Erich Hayek . His Dad, August Hayek was a professor at University of Vienna and also a well-known doctor . Mom, Née Von Hayek was a daughter of a renowned economist named Franz Von Juraschek . Née was cousin of the legendary philosopher - Ludwig Wittgenstein . In 1921, when the book 'Tractatus Logico Philophicus' was published, Friedrich was the first reader to read it . It was seen that, Friedrich was literally so frequent in the intellectual academic bent . Nonetheless, he was failed to get better grades in the respective fields as - Greek, Latin & Mathamatics . On the other side, Hayek read many evolutionary works such as - Jean Baptiste Monet De Lamarck, Hugo De Vries, Gregor Johann Mendel, August Weissman & Ludwig Feuerbach at a very early age .

In 1917, Hayek joined in the Austro-Hungarian army and fought with courage to the Italian front . He was decorated for his stupendous gallantry in the war .

Later, at the University of Vienna, Hayek initially studied Philosophy, Psychology & Economics . Afterwards, in 1921 & 1923 he obtained doctorates in law and Politics . Amidst the rhythm of 1932-1924, Hayek was researching about the macroeconomic data on American economy and the operations of the Federal Reserve . He was motivated by Wesley Claire Mitchell and carried out a doctoral research on monetary stabilization . However, he didn't wind up this research . Thereafter, he got the touch of Ludwig Von Mises & read the great book named 'Socialism' . He started to attend seminars of Mises accompanied by his university pals such as Alfred Schutz, Kaufmann, Gottfried Haberler & Fritz Machlup . In the late 1920's Hayek established & served as a post of Director, with the help of Mises . Then, London School of Economics & Political Science appointed him in 1931 . A year later, Britain was put up with the damage accounting for Winston Churchill's decision .

After the Nazi's aggression costed Austria in 1938, Hayek was reluctant to go to Austria . Six years later Hayek wrote the outstanding book on liberalism - 'The Road to Serfdom' . Hayek was literally influenced by the classical liberal thinker named - Alexis De Toqueville . In 1947, Hayek was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society . In the 50's, Hayek left the The London School of Economics & Political Science . The University of Chicago evoked him as a chairship . Nevertheless, his salary wasn't came from the Chicago University fund . It's arrived from a foundation named William Volker Fund . At the University of Chicago Hayek worked with Milton Friedman .

He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 . He also served as a professor in the University of Freiburg ( 1962 - 1968 & 1978 - 1992 ) & the University of Salzburg ( 1968 - 1977 ) .

He was honoured as the most illustrious award of the universe - Nobel Prize in Economics in the 1974 .

This indescribable person rested in peace on 23rd March, 1992 . While he breathed his last he was in the University of Freiburg . Literally, he was a representative of a devoted orthodoxy professor .

[nailedin]

so funny when toqueville is generally on the side of the revolutionaries the majority of the time but when it comes to religion he literally writes that catholics in the pre-rev 18th century were the silent majority being bullied into atheism by the vehement enlightenment writers, unlike Americans who all recognized the church and its hierarchy (which is totally separate from political hierarchy btw) as essential to ultimate freedom and stability

[nicklloydnow]

“The cult of the American founding has no parallels in other English-speaking democracies. A British prime minister who declared that 21st-century Britain must turn for guidance to Horace Walpole or Pitt the Younger would be considered daft. Many Canadians would find it difficult to identify John A. MacDonald, the chief founder of their confederation. As for Australia, one authority observes: “There is arguably no more neglected group of people in Australian history than those who produced the Australian Constitution…. Most Australians would be hard pressed to name more than the smallest handful of the Founders.”

Ironically, some of the American Founding Fathers themselves seem to have foreseen the future cult devoted to their veneration. In 1790, John Adams complained in a letter to Benjamin Rush: “The history of our Revolution will be one continued lie from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin’s electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung George Washington.” At least that would be more interesting than the present version of American political ancestor-worship, in which the Founders like a cloud of ghosts hover over our shoulders, smiling in approval or shuddering in disgust.

The cult of the Founders in its present form is only a few generations old. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Republicans honored Alexander Hamilton and disparaged Jefferson; Democrats did the reverse. True, Abraham Lincoln, in opposing slavery and defending the union, followed the example of Henry Clay in calling for a return to the idealism of the founding period. But in his Annual Address to Congress in 1862, Lincoln observed, “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the equation. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.”

Modern Founders-ism is a relic of the second half of the 20th century. It served two purposes for the American nation-state: providing a nonracist definition of the American nation during the civil-rights revolution, and supplying the American state with a missionary creed that could rival Marxism-Leninism during the Cold War.

(…)

At the same time that it provided an alternative to the traditional Teutonic Protestant version of American national identity, postwar democratic universalism was worked up into an evangelical secular creed that could contest Marxism-Leninism in the Cold War struggle to win the “hearts and minds” of people in postcolonial Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The Federalist Papers and Alexis de Toqueville’s Democracy in America were recast as sacred scriptures to be promoted abroad and taught to children at home.

(…)

Even after World War II, significant political subcultures in the United States ignored the cult of the Founding Fathers. Squabbling Marxist sectarians identified with Lenin or Trotsky or Bukharin or Luxembourg or Kautsky, not Madison or Hamilton or Jefferson. Libertarians had little use for either Jefferson’s agrarianism or Hamilton’s developmentalism and neomercantilism, and found their prophets in modern émigrés from Russia (Ayn Rand) or Austria (Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek), not the early American republic.

Meanwhile, the powerful technocratic progressive strain on the American center left has for more than a century championed expert rule informed by social science, which, like natural science, is supposed to be constantly updated by new findings. In this vision, there is little value in social science more than a decade or two old, much less 18th-century political philosophy. No wonder that references to the founding are rare among today’s progressives, except when they quote Jefferson and other Founding Fathers on the separation of church and state. Barack Obama’s slogan in his Inaugural Address, a “new foundation,” sank when launched and was quickly replaced by the slogan “win the future,” which was closer to the orientation of American progressivism. Meanwhile, the identity-politics faction, the other important school on today’s left, has no use for the Founders at all, except as defendants to be arraigned on charges of racism, genocide, patriarchy, and homophobia.

This means that there are only two groups of Americans in the electorate who might be influenced by appeals to the Founders and their era: populists, who can be either on the left or right but nowadays tend to be on the right; and Buckley-Goldwater-Reagan “fusionist” or “movement” conservatives, who favor an incoherent mix of foreign-policy hawkishness, Christian conservatism, and libertarian economics.

American populists, however, tend to identify with the grassroots anti-British rebels of the War of Independence, not with the bewigged gentlemen in stockings and buckled shoes who wrote the federal Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787. The preferred iconography of American populism includes the Boston Tea Party, the Gadsden flag with a rattlesnake, and Archibald M. Willard’s famous centennial painting of 1876, “The Spirit of ’76.” That last depicts a boy and an old man marching with the Continental line and beating drums while a soldier with a bandaged head plays on a fife, the Stars and Stripes fluttering behind them.

In contrast to populists, elite fusionist conservatives since the 1950s have privileged 1787 over 1776. They have treated the federal Constitution as the equivalent of the Ten Commandments, teaching the American people, “Thou Shalt Not Have Nice Things,” like a living wage, labor unions, guaranteed access to inexpensive health care, or adequate social insurance. The Founders thus become ventriloquist dummies for rich donors who fund fusionist magazines that few but the same donors read.

(…)

When the last idolater of the Founders has boarded the last National Review cruise and sailed off into the sunset, the acronym WWTFD—“What Would the Founders Do?”—will leave Americans as baffled as contemporary Singaporeans would be by veneration of Sir Stamford Raffles, the 19th-century British imperial official credited as the “founder” of their island city-state. This isn’t to say there is nothing to be learned from individual American Founders, like Hamilton on industrial policy or Jefferson on religious liberty. But their relevant views can and should be defended on their merits, without deferring to a sacral authority.

If anyone could have been expected to stress the continuity of American history and the need to rely on the wisdom of the Founders, it would have been John Hay. He was the private secretary of Abraham Lincoln, later serving as secretary of state under President William McKinley. In his memorial address in 1901 for McKinley, the second of two assassinated presidents whom he had served, Hay, then 67, with the wisdom of experience and age declared:

The past gives no clue to the future. The fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? We are ourselves the fathers! We are ourselves the prophets! The questions that are put to us, we must answer without delay, without help—for the sphinx allows no one to pass.”

[quadtheory27]

Fourfold Toqueville

[frankpenna83]

FrankMania and Visaje Girls

[dudewayspecialfarewell]

[johnnyprimecc]

15 East at Toqueville

15 East at Toqueville

This newly re-opened French joint offers three and five course prix fix tasting menus as well as a la carte dining. I went with some of the gang from Golden Packing to try out their wares and see what they are doing with the products Golden supplies to them. The interior was beautiful and fancy. First, the “Guillotine” cocktail. A bitter chocolate version of an old fashioned. Very nice. Their…

[robertbrancatelli]

The Land of Power Tools

The Land of Power Tools

I live in the land of power tools. On any given morning, but more so on weekends, I can hear the high-pitched whirring, whizzing, buzzing, spitting, sanding, and growling of power tools. That includes everything from air compressors and grinders to chain saws, drills, nail guns, and leaf blowers. Yes, leaf blowers. We still use leaf blowers (see Autumn Leaves). Some power tools sound like NASCAR,…

[davidblaska]

Thank God for William Barr and 'Catholic paranoia'

Thank God for William Barr and ‘Catholic paranoia’

The secular Left is apoplectic about his attack on the ‘soft despotism of government dependency’

It’s a beautiful Indian Summer day in Wisconsin, if that term can be safely used the day after Indigenous Peoples Day. 

Does anyone know whether the Freedom From Religion atheists are picketing the Jesus Lunch kids and their parents at Verona high school again today?

For “Today’s secularists are…

[raspberryjamus]

jesus christ

finally understand the electoral college at 15

fucking hell what the fuck what

[sleepydrummer]

Toquerville Moonrise & rejected landscape Artist: Dorothea Lange Date: 1953 Medium: Gelatin silver print Credit Line: Gift of Katharine Taylor Loesch

crédit photo: MoCP

[alegriaspain]

Shaky Foundations

Venomous Politicians, Rotten Planks Something I learned after being out of the States for a few years was that America’s flaws and deficiencies are not casual. They’re built into the system from its inception. The foundations of American “democracy”–a misnomer enunciated by de Toqueville six decades after the founding of the American republic in 1776 and flogged relentlessly since then–were…

[normanemilioleongoodworlds]

Canada : les non-vaccinés pourraient perdre le bénéfice de l'assurance chômage

Canada : les non-vaccinés pourraient perdre le bénéfice de l'assurance chômage https://francais.rt.com/international/94230-canada-non-vaccines-pourraient-perdre-benefice-assurance-chomage

Peut-on en démocratie être dans le déni de droits et l'abus de pouvoir ? Le Canada en a le pouvoir arbitraire.

La démocratie ne peut jamais être la tyrannie de la majorité, même sous prétexte sanitaire, sur la ou les minorité (s),voire A. De Toqueville...

Nos démocraties d'Occident, qui se veulent exemplaires, sont devenus autoritaires victimes d'une tentation totalitaire.

Que fait la reine, chef de l'Etat canadien ?

Est-ce constitutionnel ?

Qui est compétent en fait de droit constitutionnel au Canada ?

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[jloisse]

"Il y a aussi dans le cœur humain un goût dépravé pour l'égalité, qui pousse les faibles à vouloir rabaisser les forts à leur niveau et qui conduit les hommes à préférer l'égalité dans la servitude à l'inégalité dans la liberté."

Alexis de Toqueville.