Friday marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited America in 1831 and recorded his impressions of the nation's unique brand of democracy. Eric Weiner ...

Alexis de Tocqueville observes how the revolutionary socialists of 1848 failed in France because they alienated the people. In part one of this essay on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Recollections, I looked ...

“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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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 ...

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 ...

Toqueville by Honoré Daumier (detail), with a page from the original manuscript of Democracy in America. In 1831, the young French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont, ...

For Alexis Hocevar, the 2016 honoree of the Alexis de Tocqueville Award, just any entrance wouldn't do. To signal the start of the gala, Hocevar, with umbrella in hand, led partygoers in a second line ...