Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College.

There are many ways to read Tocqueville, but the authors of the essays collected in this extraordinary volume read him in the best way — as a partner in conversation about some of the most important issues confronting us today: democracy, America, and the fate of democracy in America.

• 1 What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today2 National Character and National Soul3 Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Kolnai, Tocqueville, and the Moral Foundation of Democracy4 Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism5 The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot6 Alexis de Tocqueville on the Incommensurability of America's Founding Principles7 Citizenship as a Vocation8 Compassionate Conservatism and Biotechnology: Some Tocquevillian Reflections9 Religion and the Limits of Liberal Pluralism10 Profiles in American Thomism11 Christian Love and the Foundations of American Politics: Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln12 Democracy's Darkside? Robert Kraynak's Catholic Reflections on the Soul in the Liberal Democratic Dispensation13 Machiavelli Meets the Mob: Palminteri'sA Bronx Tale

Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College.

There are many ways to read Tocqueville, but the authors of the essays collected in this extraordinary volume read him in the best way — as a partner in conversation about some of the most important issues confronting us today: democracy, America, and the fate of democracy in America.

• 1 What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today2 National Character and National Soul3 Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Kolnai, Tocqueville, and the Moral Foundation of Democracy4 Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism5 The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot6 Alexis de Tocqueville on the Incommensurability of America's Founding Principles7 Citizenship as a Vocation8 Compassionate Conservatism and Biotechnology: Some Tocquevillian Reflections9 Religion and the Limits of Liberal Pluralism10 Profiles in American Thomism11 Christian Love and the Foundations of American Politics: Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln12 Democracy's Darkside? Robert Kraynak's Catholic Reflections on the Soul in the Liberal Democratic Dispensation13 Machiavelli Meets the Mob: Palminteri'sA Bronx Tale