Editor; In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French lawyer, visited our country and observed our emerging form of government. His analysis was later published in “Democracy in America” (1835 and ...

There are moments in the history of political thought when two thinkers, separated by time and temperament, nevertheless circle the same human truth.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...