Commissioned by the French government to study prisons in the United States, Alexis De Tocqueville, a young aristocrat, allied with neither monarchists nor radicals, returned home in 1832 determined ...

“Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” (Alexis de Tocqueville) Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political philosopher who visited the ...

New Dominion Bookshop will host a book talk and signing with author and UVA professor emeritus Olivier Zunz on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Zunz will be speaking about his recent book, The ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Democracy is at once everywhere and nowhere—on the lips of the masses calling for ...

Emily B. Finley’s op-ed “‘Democracy’ by and for the Elites” (Sept. 26) continues the American political tradition of fishing for what one likes in the works of Alexis de Tocqueville and throwing back ...

Written in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy In America remains one of the most essential accounts of American democracy from an outsider's perspective. Arriving from France in 1831, de ...

The most famous visitor to the United States, Alexis de Tocqueville, praised the well-ordered home life of its citizens. In his great work Democracy in America, he argued that the nation’s republican ...

Alexis de Tocqueville warned us that democracy can turn against freedom. The public/private divide that long grounded our consensus liberal regime has begun to be replaced. In the public and private ...

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same Mr. Conservative and the Minister Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects This Thanksgiving, Heed the Words of George Washington Thanksgiving Day ...

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