Alexis de Tocqueville

Wang Huning and Alexis de Tocqueville’s dark vision of the future.

In contrast to feudal society, where everyone, lord or serf, remained rooted to the land, and words were ‘passed on'.

Tocqueville understood how constitutional review, without meaningful checks, could enable judicial despotism.

Alexis de Tocqueville left France to study the American prison system and returned with the material that would become “Democracy in America.”

Liberalism’s relationship to equality has, his­torically, been far from a warm embrace.

The US Supreme Court's most recent decisions undermine centuries of established secularism within American government.

American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.

Reflections on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the power of the presidency.

How the New England town became the mythical landscape of American democracy.

Looking to the French Revolution and the writings of Tocqueville for insight into Trump’s America.

Dickens, Tocqueville, and the U.N. all agree about this American invention: It’s torture.

The rise and fall of the Post Office from Tocqueville to Fred Rogers.

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its decline: obsolescence.

The Interstate Highway System created a national polity defined by circulation. To rethink the Interstates is to rethink the United States.

Henry Charles Carey is arguably the most influential economist in American history.

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight blazes.

A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”

The surprising influence of premillennial eschatology on American culture.

An excess of restrictions has taken a very real toll on the lives of everyday Americans. Their stories must be told.