To save our democracy, the 19th-century French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville would tell us, start a book club. Join a church. Or, perhaps most crucially, volunteer at a local school or run for ...

Alexis de Tocqueville, it’s fair to say, is more often cited than read. His oeuvre is enormous; the commonly used quotations—typically taken from Democracy in America, with a few, perhaps, coming from ...

Editors’ note: “Democracy in America: a symposium” examines the status of popular sovereignty in the United States today, nearly two centuries after the seminal work of the political theorist Alexis ...

Pt. I. What are the contexts of Tocqueville's Democracy? : Who was Tocqueville? ; How was Democracy in America written? -- Pt. II. What are some of the major themes of Tocqueville's Democracy? : What ...

As a college student, I used to think that I could not talk openly about American politics with my peers. Polling indicates that many others on campus feel the same way. Discussing my political ...

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 ...

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, ...

For two weeks, in my Humanities course at Thales College, we will be reading most of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, an unsurpassed analysis of the American system of government and the American ...

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 ...

Alexis de Tocqueville’s journey to the United States in 1831 is one of the most famous journeys in the history of political thought. As he recorded in “Democracy in America,” he found a flourishing ...

To save our democracy, the 19th-century French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville would tell us, start a book club. Join a church. Or, perhaps most crucially, volunteer at a local school or run for ...