EP. 005 - Is the “Big Beautiful Bill” Actually Good? Tocqueville Might Have an Answer
Modern Age with Dan McCarthy - A podcast by Intercollegiate Studies Institute - Joi
In Episode 5 of Modern Age with Dan McCarthy, Dan looks beyond today’s headlines about the “big beautiful bill” and asks: what can history teach us about big, ambitious legislation? To answer that, he turns to Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the French Revolution, exploring how the French monarchy’s misguided policies—long before the Revolution—set the stage for collapse. Along the way, he draws a sharp contrast between Louis XIV’s centralized control and King William III’s England, where a...
