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Damrosch’s purpose in “Tocqueville’s Discovery of America,” however, is not solely to demystify the man behind the famous work of social science. The anecdotes about Tocqueville serve a greater purpose: to illuminate the ideas and thought processes of an author who wrote the text that continues to define American democracy across the world...
Regardless, Damrosch’s work lends insight into the mind of the man who defined America for the world. In “Tocqueville’s Discovery of America,” Damrosch explains the diverse experiences that allowed Tocqueville to both construct and critique America’s political ideology and the pulse of its society. As Tocqueville himself once said, “Everything I see, everything I hear, everything I still see from far away, forms a confused mass in my mind that I may never have the time or ability to disentangle. It would...
...writing—chapters are rarely longer than four or five pages, and paragraphs are often only a sentence or two. The trouble is that this concise style renders his arguments insufficient. To dismiss Stanislavski’s entire body of work in seven pages without even quoting the man is more than just a stylistic gaffe—it creates a tone of self-importance and haughtiness that is a aggravating as is it unconvincing...
...Losers,” a new film by Sylvain White opening April 23, follows the misadventures of a black ops team betrayed by an inside man. Left for dead in the jungles of Bolivia, the “Losers,” as they’ve been dubbed, decide to track down the man who betrayed them, an evil mastermind known as Max who plans to drag the world into a technological World...
Columbus Short and Chris Evans co-star as two members of a five-man team that spend the movie kicking butt and taking names. Short plays Pooch, the laid-back, family man who acts as the team’s driver while Evans is Jensen, the smart-alec computer whiz...