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 ...

George Will quoted Alexis de Tocqueville last month in a speech at Washington University. De Toqueville wrote “Democracy in America” two generations after the American founding – after James Madison ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mix of cowboy chic and elegance set the scene for this year's Alexis de Tocqueville Award held Wednesday (Nov. 19) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The casually chic affair – the invitation told guests ...

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

Wayne Leonard has joined a group honored for the past 31 years for volunteerism and philanthropy. The former Entergy Corp. chairman and chief executive officer on Oct. 12 was named the United Way of ...