Why We Are Restless is informed by a certain Tocquevillean urgency. As the Storeys tell us in their introduction, students, among most privileged young people America, are profoundly uneasy, souls agitated and restless as they ponder questions about how should live what will make them happy. The attempt to sense of this examining thought call four “old French philosophers” (xii). They acknowled...

Without the rule of law limiting discretionary powers government agencies, but also other organizations and in-dividuals no individual freedom is possible. If re-presentatives or private persons can order at their discretion individuals to behave in certain ways, liberty guaranteed. As Immanuel Kant expressed it «man free if he needs obey person solely law.» And even indi-viduals are only oblig...