Writing in 2006, French political philosopher Pierre Manent characterized the student uprisings of 1968 as “an explosion of mildness or softness, an explosion of what Tocqueville called democratic mildness.” Specifically, Manent viewed those raucous days in the 1960s as Tocqueville’s intellectual revenge against the displacement of the advance of democratic equality he so aptly analyzed…
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