Tocqueville Forum

Tocqueville Forum Featured in the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal featured "The Tocqueville Forum" in its January 19, 2007 edition. The article - entitled "The New Campus Dissidents" - had this to say:

"Patrick Deneen, who heads the newly formed Tocqueville Forum at Georgetown University ... wants to return to 'an emphasis on classic texts, and particularly the way in which the American tradition draws on classical Western tradition and biblical tradition.' The Tocqueville Forum has adopted Georgetown's emblem as its own -- an eagle clutching a globe, the calipers of rationalism in one claw, a Christian cross in the other. In October, Mr. Deneen hosted a conference on American civic education. Justice Antonin Scalia was the keynote speaker, and much of the conservative professorial elite was in attendance. Mr. Deneen, who taught at Princeton from 1997 to 2005, notes that, 'for many people, there was a sense that universities had largely been lost to the forces of political correctness, softheaded multiculturalism.' The Madison Program, he says, 'energized many people throughout the academy.' It provided 'a legitimate intellectual and academic space where the kind of questions that lie at the heart of a classic education could be discussed.' The Tocqueville Forum is trying to open up a similar space on Georgetown's campus.

News release: "The New Campus Dissidents"