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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps the best book about America was not written by an American. Instead, Democracy in America came from the pen of a Frenchman, Alexis De Tocqueville. Tocqueville, a politician and aristocrat, ...

The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour was a series of programs produced by C-SPAN in 1997 and 1998 that followed the path taken by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont through the United States ...

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