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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A consideration of Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville. What saddens me is, not that our society is democratic, but that the vices which we have inherited and acquired make it so difficult ...

In his Sept. 24 column, "The Value of Debate in the War on Terrorism," Adam Frankel '03 touches on a feature of American life that goes beyond our current preoccupation with the war on terrorism.

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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Alexis de Tocqueville first remarked on the vital role nonprofits played in strengthening American democracy and providing for the well-being of all its citizens. Almost 200 years later, the nonprofit ...

I got the surprise of my life when, at age 36, I walked into the United States consulate in Montreal to apply for a visa and was told I was a U.S. citizen. I was born and raised in Canada, but because ...