In January of this past year, I participated in a Winston Churchill conference at the Hotel de Coronado.
It was an entirely fantastic experience and we read such Churchill classics as My Early Life and Thoughts and Adventures in great detail. Over dinner, Rahe told me of his great respect for the Claremont Institute and the Claremont government department.
One of the professors guiding us in our reading at the Churchill conference was Dr. Paul Rahe. Over at Uncommon Knowledge, Dr. Rahe discusses the tyrannical impulses of our president and the administrative state, by making reference to the thought of Montesquieu and Tocqueville and the "soft depotism" that makes those invasions on our individual rights possible. "We are all in grips of the meddling impulse" indeed. It's well worth watching.
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