Mind vs. Money: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism, and What to Do About It 

Join us for the May meeting of the Bastiat Society. The evening will feature food, drinks, great networking with like-minded leaders, and a talk by Alan Kahan on defending capitalism to intellectuals. You don't want to miss it!

*Events are free and open to the public but registration is appreciated*

Alan S. Kahan received his Ph.D. in History from The University of Chicago in 1987, and currently is Professor of British Civilization at the Université de Versailles/St. Quentin outside Paris. He will be a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France 2016-2021. American by origin, he moved to France with his family in 2007 in search of the perfect croissant. His research focuses on the history of political thought, and especially of liberalism. 

Kahan’s most recent book is Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls (Oxford, 2015). His research has been centered on Tocqueville, on nineteenth-century European liberalism, and on the relationship between intellectuals and capitalism, about which he wrote Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism (Tansaction 2010). Other works include Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville; Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political culture if Limited Suffrage; Alexis de Tocqueville; and translations of Tocqueville’s the Old Regime and the Revolution and Benjamin Constant’s Commentary on Filangieri’s Work. He is currently working on a book on The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets and Morals from Montesquieu and Smith to the Present.