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Aug 12, 2022·edited Aug 12, 2022Author

Really good stuff, Carl. It sounds like the perfect audience for Mahoney's book is the Postmodern Conservative audience. We owe it to Mahoney to read this book, I think.

That section on Tocqueville to preempt a woke cancellation of him is a brilliant idea. I visited a museum devoted to Sam Houston this past week and learned something interesting I would like to look into: apparently Tocqueville met Houston during his trip. According to the museum, Tocqueville apparently considered Houston to be a simple backwoods politician, but apparently Tocqueville learned insights about about the Native Americans from him

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