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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harvard University professor of government; author and translator of the most recent English edition of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America Think Tank is made possible by generous support from the ...

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) was neither a systematic thinker nor a system builder, neither a philosopher nor a historian. His subject was society—make that societies, their strengths and their ...

Alexis De Tocqueville, the French philosopher who visited America in the 1830s, recognized the great truth almost 200 years ago. Despite what the Democrats and the Left say, people do not have a ...

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Are Americans capable of tolerance in these politically polarized times? William Lyons reminds us that there is hope in our ...

Many readers of Alexis de Tocqueville have noted the ambiguity in his formulation of the term “democracy.” This essay suggests that this ambiguity can be clarified by considering what Tocqueville ...