| 单词 | Tocqueville |
| 例句 | Their first sight of it, on May 29, left a vivid impression, wrote George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville’s principal biographer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet by the time they left, Tocqueville and Beaumont had their doubts. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville is famous for his seminal book Democracy in America, but what is less well known is his original purpose in coming to the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And in their final report to the government, Tocqueville and Beaumont wrote, One cannot see the prison of Sing-Sing and the system of labour which is there established without being struck by astonishment and fear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after their arrival, Tocqueville and Beaumont heard a story that appeared to shed further light on the keepers’ ideology. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Tocqueville predicted, aristocrats like the Roosevelts and Stimsons managed to transfer their allegiance from class to country, successfully yoking their personal ambition to larger public causes. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The shelves are finished with crown moldings, atop which perch small white busts, all of which were specially chosen: George Washington, Lafayette, Pierre de Ronsard, Benjamin Franklin, Diderot, Voltaire, Leibniz, Tocqueville, Descartes, Molière, and Balzac. Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z “The Demon of Writing” takes in Marx, Freud, Tocqueville and Jim Henson — who in his pre-“Muppets” days made a surreal promotional video for an early IBM word processor called “The Paperwork Explosion.” Noting the History of the Paper Trail 2012-12-16T20:47:26Z In fact, it was understood by de Tocqueville and others that the governmental oath test was removed, but the individual’s religious test could remain. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z Not a commitment to correction but a longstanding lust for retribution, an incarceration addiction that makes America, as Alexis de Tocqueville put it, see prison as “a remedy for all the evils of society.” Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z It replaces the restaurant the Fourth and a bar run by Tocqueville’s owners. Made Nice, the Latest From Daniel Humm and Will Guidara, Opens 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z “He experienced the country as a sort of de Tocqueville of baseball.” Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Throughout, Tocqueville employs a striking range of styles. Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Pozner had the right eye and the right ear for the great American frenzy; he was following in the footsteps of Tocqueville, but he was no more interested in theorizing than Vian was. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z What the French traveler and diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville described as "individualism" had a profound influence on biblical interpretation and the way laypeople read the sacred text. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z This troubling ambiguity could explain why Chinese readers, struggling to decipher the intentions of their rulers, made de Tocqueville's book a national bestseller. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z So it was Tocqueville's ideas more than his life, although I thought it highly significant that he was a child of survivors of the terror. Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America could be my best book 2010-08-17T11:38:00Z THE bartender at Tocqueville, Nicholas Alexander, casually placed a basket of warm gougères in front of me. Restaurant Bars at Daniel, Tocqueville and Riverpark 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In 1835 and 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville published the two volumes of what would eventually be recognized as a masterpiece of political analysis. Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Passages from the writings of Jacques Marquette, Alexis de Tocqueville and Ralph Waldo Emerson are interwoven with eyewitness accounts and archival audio. Review: ‘The Illinois Parables’ Soothes and Inflames Feelings About America 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville remarked in 1835 that “There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.” Should atheists fight for religion in government? 2013-04-16T18:50:00Z Seeking to switch gears from consulting, he quit and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education, in New York; after graduating, he worked at high-end Manhattan restaurants like Daniel and Tocqueville. Wanted: A Nice Dinner Place for a Maine Island With a Long, Hungry Winter 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “The greatest dangers of the American republics proceed from the omnipotence of the majority,” Tocqueville wrote. JCT: Obamacare's Exchange Subsidies Will Remove 8 Million Americans from the Tax Rolls 2011-10-28T13:16:53Z Alexis de Tocqueville, commenting on Americans’ propensity to form associations, called this “art of joining” the “fundamental science” of democracy. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z In the commanding translation by Arthur Goldhammer for the Library of America, Tocqueville declares that his book simply aims “to familiarize the reader with the laws of the United States.” Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z “The Upswing” begins by invoking Tocqueville’s admiring depiction of America in the 1830s as a land where individualism was balanced by mutual association and common purpose. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Merced was asked to stay on full time as a line cook at Tocqueville, at least through the winter. A New Door Into the Kitchen for Aspiring Chefs 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The most important book on America remains Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America.” Ben Sasse: By the Book 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The French snob and hypochondriac is based loosely on Alexis de Tocqueville, who arrived in the U.S. in 1831 and spent nine months crisscrossing the land before writing his seminal "Democracy in America." 'Parrot and Olivier in America': A historical, comic novel by Peter Carey 2010-04-23T22:16:00Z “Society was cut in two,” wrote Aléxis de Tocqueville. Citoyen, citoyenne 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z While Tocqueville was wrong about some things — the federal government did not grow weaker over time — he regularly exhibits a Nostradamus-like prescience about certain aspects of 2020. Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In the tradition of Tocqueville, the Swedish economist was hired by the Carnegie Corporation to bring a foreigner’s impartial eye to America’s racial scene in the late 1930s. ‘Ghetto,’ by Mitchell Duneier 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The book is inspired by the American travels of French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville. Winner of Booker Prize to be announced in London 2010-10-12T13:31:00Z But through all the accolades, Mr. Piketty seems to be maintaining a most un-rock-star-like modesty, brushing away comparisons to Tocqueville and Marx with an embarrassed grimace and a Gallic puff of the lips. Thomas Piketty Tours U.S. for His New Book 2014-04-18T21:37:26Z Rather, they subscribed to the later dictum of Alexis de Tocqueville: that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. Reactionary days 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the U.S., in the eighteen-thirties, he found a people still in thrall to British literary culture, with volumes of Shakespeare in many a pioneer’s hut. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z For them, the French revolution appears to have importance chiefly as a warning – hence their interest in the writings of de Tocqueville. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z Victor Hugo, a staunch opponent of the coup, fled to Brussels, while Alexis de Tocqueville retired from political life to avoid joining the regime. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Tocqueville viewed Andrew Jackson as an ignorant yahoo totally unfit for the nation’s highest office — and we nonetheless survived his presidency and others far worse. Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The Swiss-born Frank influenced countless photographers and was likened to Alexis de Tocqueville for so vividly capturing the U.S. through the eyes of a foreigner. Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville considered American individualism surprisingly uniform and conformist. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Taking inspiration from Alexis de Tocqueville and other visiting chroniclers of the United States, this series spotlights their cinematic equivalents. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But Carey said he had been careful to ensure that Olivier's life "cannot be Tocqueville's life". Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America could be my best book 2010-08-17T11:38:00Z Mr. Ulrich, 41, is a portfolio manager at Tocqueville Asset Management in New York. Marina Rutherfurd, Adrian Ulrich 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville is proved right once again: it’s politically easier to reduce subsidies for the poor than for the middle class. Mitt Romney's Vaguely Promising Plan for Entitlement Reform 2011-11-05T19:41:51Z “De Tocqueville was able to write the most important book on American culture because he was French.” Left-Leaning Documentary World Seeks Right-Wing Perspective 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “There is no truth but in transit,” said the essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson in the mid-19th century, while Alexis de Tocqueville marvelled at the “feverish ardour” of the rootless American. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z He means, with credit to Alexis de Tocqueville, “not just rights, laws and institutions, but what free people do together, the habits and skills that enable us to run our own affairs.” Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Frequently named as Australia's best contender for the Nobel, Carey said he was inspired to write his new novel by Tocqueville's study of America's evolving democratic society in the 19th century, Democracy in America. Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America could be my best book 2010-08-17T11:38:00Z He got the idea for the book, Mr. Carey said, from reading Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” a few years ago. Peter Carey, Australian at Home in New York 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z But this remnant of Tocqueville’s America is limited to the top 1 or 2 percent. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In his other books, he has skittered through history and across the English-speaking world, from Victorian London to 1970s New York to the early America visited by Alexis de Tocqueville. Peter Carey’s Literary Hack 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z He is in favor of localism and “subsidiarity”—the principle, cited by Alexis de Tocqueville and originating in Catholicism, that problems should be solved by people who are nearby. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “There is hardly a pioneer’s hut that does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the 1830s. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z This approach, more than any particular issue, is a fundamental challenge to an expansive court, presidency and even, perhaps, to the aristocratic position that de Tocqueville discerned in the law. Why the American legal system is so flexible 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Alexander said he sees the Tocqueville bar as “very relaxed but very refined.” Restaurant Bars at Daniel, Tocqueville and Riverpark 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z After World War II, a freshly translated edition led to ever-increasing attention, in part because Tocqueville’s observations possessed bipartisan appeal. Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The bar at Tocqueville is a slice of quiet. Restaurant Bars at Daniel, Tocqueville and Riverpark 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The implications for policy are rather less so, since de Tocqueville also warned that for a bad government, the moment of greatest danger comes when it starts to reform. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z Tocqueville is good on this: how everyday practical activities where we have to cooperate serve as a nursery of the democratic personality. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z The Futureby Al Gore From a parochial British perspective, what might be most significant is the fact that China's rulers are reading de Tocqueville at all. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z As Alexis de Tocqueville, the unrivaled chronicler of 19th century America, observed, "like most other men," lawyers "are governed by their private interests, and especially by the interests of the moment." A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z She likened the initial idea for her second book to Alexis de Tocqueville. A North Korean Dissident Defects to the American Right 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Moira Weir, CEO of the United Way of Greater Cincinnati, says her organization continues to support the American ideals that Tocqueville praised. Helping out: How American volunteerism is changing — and why 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z He assigns his students readings from free-market political thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville. Christians, conservatives work to save traditional liberal arts 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and Alexis de Tocqueville aside, the values of people who live along Lake Erie are Midwestern values. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: About that wokeness at Princeton 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z But Tocqueville also recognized another side of the story. A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z A little more than two centuries later, French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville traveled through the U.S. and was impressed to find a nation of joiners. We’re a nation of joiners, a new show at the Library of Congress says 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z It recently marked 35 years since it became one of the founding United Way members of the Tocqueville Society, which provides her group more than $13 million in funding annually. Helping out: How American volunteerism is changing — and why 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Instead, these states had the crackling entrepreneurial energy that Alexis de Tocqueville, floating down the Ohio in Jacksonian America, saw to his right, in Ohio, but not to his left, in slaveholding Kentucky. Opinion | In unsettled times, look to Midwestern values 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Most political theorists, including Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Karl Polanyi and Max Weber, started from the premise that there is a natural antagonism between owners and workers. Rail strike bill: Both sides do it — wage relentless war against the working class, that is 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Indictments of those people were brought by special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski and their staffs who, in Tocqueville's words, "valued legality" and vindicated it. A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z “To meddle in the government of society and to speak about it,” French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville observed, is “the only pleasure that an American knows.” Opinion | What Abraham Lincoln can teach politicians in a polarized time 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Tocqueville came to believe that democracy was an unstoppable force whose major benefit was equality before the law. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Tocqueville suggested that voluntary associations were essential to American democracy, because they gave the strength of numbers to otherwise weak individuals and trained them to seek the common good. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Interestingly, in 1835 the great political sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville predicted an ongoing struggle between American democracy and Russian despotism and outlined the essential differences between the two traditions. Opinion | Hostility toward Russians living in the U.S. is a shocking display of misguided prejudice 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z It is a striking reminder that on one side of Tocqueville's two stories lies skilled and vigilant lawyering in pursuit of accountability. A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z In 1831, French writer Alexis de Tocqueville had contrasted the brutal conditions in American prisons to the “extended liberty” of American society. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They reacted against the age of mass democracy in Jacksonian America—what Tocqueville called the “tyranny of majority”—by arguing for greater individualism against conformity. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When Tocqueville wrote about Russia, he had in mind the czarist system. Opinion | Unraveling the long, bitter history between the United States and Russia 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Part of the challenge, as Tocqueville repeatedly tells us elsewhere, is that democratic peoples “scorn forms.” Classical education critical for preserving Constitution 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The lawyers in the special counsel's office are not alone in vindicating Tocqueville's hope. A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville gave a warning: World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Tocqueville’s experience led him to believe that democracy was an unstoppable force that would one day overthrow monarchy around the world. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The co-owner of a gun shop, he was politically conservative and community-minded — a member of the United Way Tocqueville Society and a board member for a nonprofit group that assists refugees. He Was the ‘Perfect Villain’ for Voting Conspiracists 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z He turned, as many have before him, to Alexis de Tocqueville, the brilliantly perceptive student of 19th-century America, for clues about what “religion contributes to democracy.” Opinion | Can religion strengthen democracy? 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Almost 200 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville spoke of community trust as social capital, which to business leaders is as vital as financial capital. Opinion | For corporations, political ‘wokeness’ works 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville summed up Napoleon’s character by saying, “He was as great as a man can be without virtue.” World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The majority exercised a new type of power that went well beyond politics, leading Alexis de Tocqueville to write about the “tyranny of the majority.” U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He quotes Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation after visiting our young republic in the 1830s that equality is the “ardent, insatiable, eternal and invincible” yearning of democratic societies. Opinion | America won’t be ‘back’ as long as inequality is still a problem 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z “De Tocqueville,” he writes, “worried that if we did not worship God, we might be tempted to worship the powers of this world.” Opinion | Can religion strengthen democracy? 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z But in Tocqueville’s terms, it’s a desire we are motivated by. After COVID-19 and Jan. 6, George Packer on the 'Last Best Hope' for an unwound country 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z While Whitman worshiped equality, Tocqueville worried about it. Review | The search for balance among four Americas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Does Alexis de Tocqueville’s argument about the tyranny of the majority reflect American democracy today? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Fleeing the after-effects of that Revolution, Tocqueville finds a very young United States that is largely middle class — and yet also discontented. Why are we restless? Two academics find answers in several French philosophers 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z Neither French political analyst Alexis de Tocqueville nor British public intellectual James Bryce was fully sold on the American experiment. Review | A modern-day historian writes the timeline of American decline 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z French political scientist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville was the first writer to describe the United States as "exceptional" in the 19th century. U.S. exceptionalism is dead: long live U.S. uniqueness? 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Americans’ passion for equality is so intense, Tocqueville said, that they are prepared to sacrifice everything else in its pursuit, including freedom. Review | The search for balance among four Americas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Emerson’s ideas dovetailed with those of the French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote about the “tyranny of the majority” in his Democracy in America. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He mentioned Alexis de Tocqueville’s praise of American democracy. A Shattering Blow to America’s Troubled Democratic Image 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z And so, like a modern Alexis de Tocqueville, Sacks focuses on civil society. Review | A rabbi’s final call for a commitment to the common good 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Every presidential election is a “moment of national crisis,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in an obscure but — today — eerily relevant passage of that great 1835 book. Opinion | We’ve been here before — and odds are we’ll make it through once more 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Such a move would end the Senate’s role as the constitutional guardrail against what Tocqueville called the “tyranny of the majority.” Opinion | A vote for Biden is a vote for a one-party state 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Tocqueville, like Emerson, expressed concern that a powerful majority could overpower the will of individuals. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Even French diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1800s referred to America’s “exceptionalism,” though as a reference to its geographical uniqueness — being set apart from Europe. Blue states rebel against Trump’s bid to teach ‘American exceptionalism’ 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville, the Frenchman who studied us in the 1830s, wrote that America’s cult of individualism was perilously close to raw selfishness — the “me first” instinct we often see today. Opinion | The rage that fuels Trumpism still burns 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z A partisan and sectional political death spiral took hold in the decades after Tocqueville’s visit; he foresaw it. Opinion | We’ve been here before — and odds are we’ll make it through once more 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z In his classic "Democracy in America," Alexis de Tocqueville noted, in a way that very much speaks to us today: Do business leaders have any business being president? Available evidence says no 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Tocqueville marveled at the spirit of democracy that pervaded American life. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “No African came in freedom to the shores of the New World,” wrote the 19th-century French intellectual Alexis de Tocqueville. What black America means to Europe 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Nineteenth-century visitors to the country, such as the French statesman Alexis de Tocqueville, were struck by both American optimism and American obsession with individual liberties. Perspective | Billionaires are playing savior now. But they broke the economy to begin with. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Second, Tocqueville observed that Americans achieve the common good through voluntary associations. Opinion | Coronavirus might make authoritarianism look like the answer. It’s not. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z He cited Alexis de Tocqueville, the French diplomat and political scientist who wrote “Democracy in America” after touring the young nation. AG Barr becomes the ‘Tocqueville’ of D.C. political, press culture 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The first volume of Tocqueville’s two-volume work was immediately popular throughout Europe. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z That is also the question that Alexis de Tocqueville argued Americans use to ascertain the "value of everything in this world." Donald Trump has poisoned American culture — but the toxin was here all along 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z There are any number of questions surrounding the treatment of transgender individuals, and this being America, they all seem, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed about the American tendency toward litigiousness, to end up in court. Opinion | A judge said calling a transgender woman ‘her’ would show bias. Oh, please. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z When Alexis de Tocqueville described how Americans generally achieve the common good, he mentioned two principles. Opinion | Coronavirus might make authoritarianism look like the answer. It’s not. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z “When the entire press ‘advances along the same track,’ as Tocqueville put it, the relationship between the press and the energized majority becomes mutually reinforcing. AG Barr becomes the ‘Tocqueville’ of D.C. political, press culture 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Indeed, Tocqueville described a new type of tyranny, the tyranny of the majority, which overpowers the will of minorities and individuals and was, in his view, unleashed by democracy in the United States. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Tocqueville, writing in 1835, noted that our “ordinary practices of life” were egalitarian, too: we behaved as if there weren’t many differences among us. The Equality Conundrum 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z This point was elucidated by Alexis de Tocqueville in his classic 1835 book, “Democracy in America.” The U.S. Constitution is an amazing document — but it won't save us from Donald Trump 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Joshua D Rothman, a history professor at the University of Alabama, was among those who pointed out that Innes Clark Hare deployed the paraphrase of Tocqueville in writing about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Ivanka Trump defends father with fake impeachment quote 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z On Thursday the first daughter criticized the impeachment proceedings by tweeting an Alexis de Tocqueville quote about the decline of public morals. Topless bans are just laws that treat female bodies like sex objects | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z How did Alexis de Tocqueville react to his visit to the United States? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Across the political spectrum, we grieve the loss of what Alexis de Tocqueville called the “general equality of conditions,” which, with the grievous exception of slavery, once shaped American society. The Equality Conundrum 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, toured America for seven months for the purpose of carefully observing this newfound democracy to determine whether it might serve as an appropriate model for his nation of France. The U.S. Constitution is an amazing document — but it won't save us from Donald Trump 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z The quote was also wrongly attributed to Tocqueville in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on the impeachment last month, which is possibly where the president’s daughter found the quote. Ivanka uses fake quote to complain about "decline of public morals" behind impeachment 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Discussing his decision on the Fox Nation show over the weekend, Van Drew cited a piece on the topic written by French political thinker and historian Alexis De Tocqueville more than 150 years ago. Democratic Congressman blasts impeachment hearings, says process reminds him of 'third-world nations' 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Jack Goldstone was a mathematician-turned-historian who, as a Harvard student, once used maths to codify Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideas about democracy. History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But that doesn’t come close enough to describing the epic achievements of Barnum’s showmanship as well as the forgotten contributions to what his contemporary, Alexis de Tocqueville, tried to describe as the American character. Review | P.T. Barnum, the showman and grifter who held up a funhouse mirror to America 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Tocqueville’s observations about America proved to be astoundingly insightful, and his book remains essential reading to this day. The U.S. Constitution is an amazing document — but it won't save us from Donald Trump 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z White House adviser Ivanka Trump attempted to defend her father as the impeachment inquiry continues by tweeting a quote she wrongly attributed to famed 19th-century French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville. Ivanka uses fake quote to complain about "decline of public morals" behind impeachment 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Romer came to the desert imagining himself as an objective outsider: de Tocqueville among the Burners. A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “I tried to produce De Tocqueville’s argument as a set of equations,” he told me recently. History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z “I’ve taught de Tocqueville — I’m not threatened by that,” he told me. Opinion | Can We Guarantee That Colleges Are Intellectually Diverse? 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville offered a prescient warning for “the friends of democracy”. To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Hare was paraphrasing a quote from Tocqueville on his opposition to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Ivanka uses fake quote to complain about "decline of public morals" behind impeachment 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, at the age of twenty-five, was sent by France’s Ministry of Justice to study the American penal system. The Rich Can’t Get Richer Forever, Can They? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z British politics, Alexis de Tocqueville noted, mimics the club not the mob. Without true friends or allies, Theresa May’s downfall was inevitable | Simon Jenkins 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z To shape a social media that would be the fabric of cooperation that Alexis de Tocqueville described as civil society — and not some lab of populism and fascism — we need transparency to study it. Views from a continent in flux 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z With the rise of industrial capital, Tocqueville feared there would be no genuine relationships between these two emergent classes. To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Drawing openly upon Alexis de Tocqueville's warnings about a "tyranny of the majority," Lukacs was especially wary of populism and was quoted by other historians as Donald Trump rose to the presidency. John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian, dead at 95 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Today, the top one per cent in this country gets about twenty per cent of the income, similar to the distribution found across the Atlantic in Tocqueville’s day. The Rich Can’t Get Richer Forever, Can They? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z If Tocqueville is right, then in front of our eyes the European Union is turning into a true democracy. Why Viktor Orbán and his allies won’t win the EU elections | Ivan Krastev 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831, he was impressed as much by Americans’ willingness to help one another and by their civic engagement as he was by their industriousness. Review | When political conflict led to compromise, not enmity 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Almost 200 years later, Tocqueville’s fears seem prescient. To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z House, “one is struck by the vulgar demeanor of that great assembly,” wrote French diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville. The strange history of the House’s 181-year-old ban on hats — and the push to overturn it 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The cohort of European economists, including Milanovic and the French brigade, are following in the footsteps of Tocqueville. The Rich Can’t Get Richer Forever, Can They? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z They may intuitively identify with something written long ago by Alexis de Tocqueville, the famous French nobleman who visited the United States in 1831. Opinion | Chreasters help support churches 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville celebrated the distinctive American tendency for all people to participate in civil society. Perspective | Plutocratic politics and the age of gilded giving 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z They’re symptoms, not causes -- reactions to widespread heartbreak at the breakdown of what Tocqueville called republican habits of the heart that we used to cultivate. Our republic is in crisis — and it’s killing us. Can we really claim we didn’t see it coming? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z In “Democracy in America,” the French political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville warned that the greatest threat to democracy is “individualism,” a disposition to isolate oneself from everyone other than a small circle of like-minded people. Fortnite teaches children how not to function as an adult 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z For example, Tocqueville, who was the youngest son of a count, was deeply impressed by how equal the economic conditions in the United States were. The Rich Can’t Get Richer Forever, Can They? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z In his book “Democracy in America,” de Tocqueville recognized exceptional qualities in U.S. society. Opinion | Chreasters help support churches 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The first, as expressed by Alexis de Tocqueville, is: “The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.” Opinion | Saudi Arabia’s repressive power grip 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Tocqueville was one of the first in a long line of modern writers who have posited that democracy, in some sense, represents a logical culmination of human affairs. Perspective | Five myths about democracy 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville offered a prominent formulation of this idea: “There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.” Opinion | Do Public School Students Have Constitutional Rights? 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z When Alexis de Tocqueville toured America in 1831, he concluded that one secret of our success was our ability to solve problems collectively and cooperatively. Opinion | How to Play Our Way to a Better Democracy 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z In his study of “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville credited “voluntary associations” with the strength of the American Republic. Our loneliness epidemic is a political problem, too 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Progressives might be tempted to welcome the right’s waning public support for volunteerism; perhaps stripping away the mask reveals Ayn Rand’s leer behind Tocqueville’s smile. Perspective | Republicans used to celebrate voluntarism and service. What happened? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “A great democratic revolution is going on amongst us,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1835, in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the rise of Jacksonian democracy in America. Perspective | Five myths about democracy 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville visited in 1831 from France, where the crowned heads at Versailles dared not mingle with their people. The Culture That Sustains America’s Constitution 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Unsupervised play is the perfect apprenticeship for Tocqueville’s art of association, but this art can be lost if children are prevented from practicing it. Opinion | How to Play Our Way to a Better Democracy 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z If de Tocqueville was correct about the essentiality of voluntary cooperation, it is only logical that democracy will decay when those associations begin to disintegrate. Our loneliness epidemic is a political problem, too 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z He assigns readings not just by Mao but by Western authors like Alexis de Tocqueville and Samuel P. Huntington, the American political scientist. Mao 101: Inside a Chinese Classroom Training the Communists of Tomorrow 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Much later, Alexis de Tocqueville linked citizenship to civic participation. Not just a place to live: From homelessness to citizenship 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Later Tocqueville visited Andrew Jackson in the White House, where the president himself, with no servant in sight, served glasses of Madeira. The Culture That Sustains America’s Constitution 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Early liberals like Constant and Tocqueville spent much time thinking about how to counter the perils of democracy. Liberal democracy is in crisis. But ... do we know what it is? | Helena Rosenblatt 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z De Tocqueville and Mill were close: Mill had enormous respect for his friend's ideas. Doodles offer clues to great philosopher 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z As I’ve written before, Alexis de Tocqueville worried that without a class of patriotic and selfless aristocrats, the United States could fall prey to demagogues and populists. Opinion | The best parts of Comey’s book have nothing to do with Trump 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than other nations, but rather in her ability to repair her faults,” Justice Ginsburg said. Justice Ginsburg Urges New Citizens to Make America Better 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z A professor of government, he’s among the foremost experts on Tocqueville and Machiavelli. Manhood in the Age of Trump 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z As Tocqueville said, it was essential to “educate democracy.” Liberal democracy is in crisis. But ... do we know what it is? | Helena Rosenblatt 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z “America is great because she is good,” Alexis de Tocqueville is often quoted as saying. Opinion | Living Abroad Taught Me to Love America 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Tocqueville saw that lawyers, with their sense of civic duty, created a “form of public accountability that would help preserve the blessings of democracy without allowing its untrammeled vices.” Opinion | The best parts of Comey’s book have nothing to do with Trump 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Among other things, Alexis de Tocqueville ruminated over the march of democracy to its ultimate conclusion, which is the enslavement of those who produce to those who don’t. Opinion | Is There Life After Liberalism? 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z If you are thinking about running for president as a Democrat in 2020 you don’t want to be the person who stood in the way of anyone reading de Tocqueville in lockup. Selling Prisoners Cheetos, Not Chomsky 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z They are known as Tocqueville donors, named for the French writer who in the 1830s remarked on the American affinity for forming private groups to address public needs. Charities fear tax bill could turn philanthropy into a pursuit only for the rich 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Worst of all, it would decrease giving by the “every man” who Alexis Tocqueville once called the backbone of civil society. Why is Donald Trump launching a withering attack on nonprofits? | David Callahan 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z She was first exposed to Alexis de Tocqueville’s book in an undergraduate political science class. Analysis | The Daily 202: The reading list that helped Hillary Clinton cope 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z As Ross asserts, Deneen now claims that de Tocqueville’s nervous Nostradamics have proven true in the death of the relevance of Western liberalism. Opinion | Is There Life After Liberalism? 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville, that famous student of American democracy, once wrote: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” A letter to my American friends: when did the dream die? 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z “Unbelievers in Europe attack Christians more as political than religious enemies,” Tocqueville wrote. Opinion | The 7,150 nuns who fought against Trumpcare 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to comment on American amiability, comparing it with the “unsociable mood of the English.” Perspective | Americans have always been nice. But is it just a sham? 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z After losing a national campaign, she zeroed in on another theme of de Tocqueville’s narrative. Analysis | The Daily 202: The reading list that helped Hillary Clinton cope 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z An expert on political theory and history, Dr. Boesche published several books, including “Theories of Tyranny: From Plato to Arendt” and “The Strange Liberalism of Alexis De Tocqueville.” Roger Boesche, professor who sparked future President Obama’s passion for politics, dies at 69 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Boesche, a scholar of Alexis de Tocqueville and tyranny, taught American and European political thought until he retired this month. Roger Boesche, Occidental professor who sparked Obama's interest in politics, dies at 69 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The French travel writer Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans in this regard were “quite exceptional” compared to Old World Europeans. Perspective | Rep. Steve King is half-right. Immigrants really do change America’s culture. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z An Interior Ministry spokesman, speaking on French television, said the suspect is a 17-year-old male student at the Lycée Alexis de Tocqueville in Grasse. School shooting, letter bomb at IMF put France on alert 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Reports said a man in possession of several weapons opened fire on the headmaster at the Alexis de Tocqueville school in the town. School shooting in French town of Grasse sparks terror alert 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z He saw the South with a sharp outsider’s eye that made him an Alexis de Tocqueville for our time. Perspective | Reading James Baldwin on a segregated Southern construction site 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The famed French observer of American life, Alexis de Tocqueville, reported on one such instance in a New York court in 1831. Distrust of the non-religious runs deep in American history 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “I’d learned in class about Tocqueville’s idea of the danger posed to liberty by overvaluing equality, and how that is relevant today,” the guide said. In Hillsdale College, a ‘Shining City on a Hill’ for Conservatives 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Among the wounded was the “heroic” principal of the Lycée Tocqueville, who, according to Vallaud-Belkacem, rushed to the scene to try to reason with the student when he saw him pull a gun. School shooting, letter bomb at IMF put France on alert 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville famously observed that Americans were “born equal.” Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson and American “greatness”: There are valid parallels — but not in a good way 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Dating back to the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America,” American exceptionalism refers to the idea that the United States differs substantively from other nations. The new American exceptionalism: How the Russian connection to the 2016 election signals the destruction of our nation’s ideals 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Tocqueville found the episode emblematic of how religion routinely informed the norms of American civic life. Distrust of the non-religious runs deep in American history 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “This was really brought home to me, seeing an original translation of Tocqueville here in the Heritage Room.” In Hillsdale College, a ‘Shining City on a Hill’ for Conservatives 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher who visited America in the early 19th century and published books on his observations, was the first to refer to America’s economy as exceptional. Holiday Cheer From the Dismal Science 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z In his study of American democracy in the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that political freedom could only work in tandem with Christian morality. Themes of 2016: across continents, autocrats take control | Ian Buruma 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z As De Tocqueville pointed out, people liberated from old hierarchies “want equality in freedom, and, if they cannot get it, they still want it in slavery.” Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z This is the spirit that Tocqueville admired in 19th-century America, and it’s why in a brutal political year, Dove and those like her help restore my faith in America. Finding America’s Mother Teresa 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville’s admiring account of American democracy in the 1830s is well known. The End of the Anglo-American Order 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z But even early in America’s history, Tocqueville saw in our strength the power of civil society, our groups of motivated citizens. Donald Trump and the Epidemiology of Hate 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z For Tocqueville, this term was not to be equated with self-centeredness, selfishness or egoism, nor with “the cult of the self.” American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “To live in freedom,” De Tocqueville warned, “one must grow used to a life full of agitation, change and danger.” Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z In the early 1830s, the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville revived this view in his reflections on American society. Democratic awakening: The damaging psychological effects of the 2016 election 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Born soon after the French Revolution, Tocqueville was haunted by the question of why Britain, with its mighty aristocracy, was spared such an upheaval. The End of the Anglo-American Order 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z This new birth of freedom would be led by a new generation of modern Murrays and Tocquevilles. Meet Planned Parenthood’s Tim Kaine 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Tocqueville had great hopes for American democracy to succeed. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z We witness a universal frenzy of fear and loathing today, because the democratic revolution De Tocqueville witnessed has spread from its American centre to the remotest corners of the world. Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Long before Twitter or cable news, Alexis de Tocqueville aptly described presidential elections. Debate for Democracy 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z When the brilliant young French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville toured America in the 1830s, he was excited by the democratic fervor he witnessed. How America became a 1% society 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville worried about frontiersmen withdrawing from society and believing that they “owe nothing to any man”. Normalising narcissism 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But while lauding the rights and privileges of the Americans he observed, Tocqueville also adumbrated the responsibilities that came with being an American citizen. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Oh, how we’d love to know what Alexis de Tocqueville, the aristocratic Frenchman born in Paris on this day in 1805, would make of the last two weeks. Your Friday Briefing 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Watching Donald Trump last week, I thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political philosopher whose “Democracy in America,” published circa the 1830s, remains the most insightful study of our national character. The revenge of unrealistic expectations 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Close readers of de Tocqueville will notice, however, that he did warn of the staying power of the aristocracy, even in this new country. How America became a 1% society 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Periwigged men in Paris salons, Tocqueville once lamented, were “almost totally removed from practical life” and worked “by the light of reason alone.” How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Tocqueville raised the concept of participatory citizenship as the cornerstone of any true democracy. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z But Tocqueville instead spent nine months visiting more than a dozen states and three sparsely settled territories with his friend Gustave de Beaumont. Your Friday Briefing 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The French Revolution presented a paradox, Tocqueville wrote. The revenge of unrealistic expectations 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z It's also why Alexis de Tocqueville noted that what "most astonishes me in the United States is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings as the innumerable multitude of small ones." Make America Local Again 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But it was the socially maladjusted Genevan, whose writings Tocqueville claimed to read every day, who first attacked modernity for the unjust way in which power accrues to a networked élite. How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z That being said, Tocqueville did not foresee a number of structural issues in our democracy. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The other part of this is that, as de Tocqueville told us, there's nothing more dangerous than unmet expectations. The stunning truth that explains the rise of the far-right in Britain and elsewhere 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z In “The Old Regime and the Revolution,” a study of political ferment in late-eighteenth-century France, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that, in the decades leading up to the Revolution, France had been notably prosperous and progressive. The New Activism of Campus Life 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that Americans are great at forming spontaneous voluntary groups. How to fix society? One community at a time 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Tocqueville pointed out that the passion for equality can swell to “the height of fury” and help boost authoritarian figures and movements to power. How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Tocqueville believed that true democracy stands for and promotes the equal right of all citizens to the advantages of this world, yet at the same time causes anxiety in our quest to attain these advantages. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z "Life doesn't desert any place forever," says Aude de Tocqueville. Thirty years after the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, nature is making a comeback. These Ghost Towns Once Thronged With Life Many conservatives cite Madison and Tocqueville, he said, but “Ted has actually read them.” Ted Cruz’s Conservatism: The Pendulum Swings Consistently Right 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z In May 1831, the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont landed in Newport, Rhode Island, for what would be a nine-month tour through the emerging United States. West side story: how Shakespeare stormed America's frontier 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z When De Tocqueville toured the States in the 1830s, he described the immense and widespread popularity of Shakespeare. William Shakespeare: a quintessentially American author 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z It is undeniably true that since Tocqueville’s time we have come a long way. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z "What fascinates me about lost cities," says de Tocqueville, "is that, like us, they are born in a particular place in the world, grow up, and then die." These Ghost Towns Once Thronged With Life Even so, the over-the-top claims that Mr. Trump is the new Il Duce may be distracting attention from the soft despotism that Tocqueville deemed the far likelier menace to American liberties. Hillary’s Soft Despotism 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville, in his mid-nineteenth-century study of the young United States, identified “the manners and the customs of the people” as the “principal cause” maintaining the Republic. How to Recognize a Constitutional Crisis 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z But Klain noted that as far back as the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.” Scalia battle reflects politicization of court’s role 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z When Tocqueville wrote his seminal book nearly 200 years ago, America was still in a state of becoming. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Tocqueville wrote of America in the 1830s as a place where “the more opulent citizens take great care not to stand aloof from the people.” Trump’s America 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that “Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite” in associations for the purpose of “bringing to light a truth or developing a sentiment.” HANS VON SPAKOVSKY: Forced donor disclosure is bad for democracy 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z In “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville took on the European orthodoxy of his own day when he noted that, in America, free religion was the friend of liberty. Europe’s Feckless Secularism 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville made similar observations about the unique character of the citizenry in "Democracy in America" in 1835. What Every American Should Know 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Our challenges today are different than those faced during Tocqueville’s time—whether ensuring the universal right to high-quality education, fighting against economic inequality, or preserving freedom of speech. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “There is only one nation on earth where daily use is made of the unlimited freedom to associate for political ends,” Tocqueville writes. The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Tocqueville inferred, wryly, “that the drinking population constitutes the majority in your country, and that temperance is somewhat unpopular.” Prohibition and the Penal State 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In the decades that followed, versions of the quote – variously attributed to Tytler, Alexis de Tocqueville and Thomas Jefferson, among others – became a mainstay on the political right. The GOP is the reverse Robin Hood party: Inside their long war against the “lucky ducky” poor 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Tocqueville concluded that Americans “are obviously preoccupied by one great fear,” the fear of “centralization.” Why Americans Don’t Trust the Fed 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The push and pull between those two philosophical poles has been a feature of American culture at least since Alexis de Tocqueville made his anthropological field trip back in the 1830s. Donald Trump is poetic justice: How the GOP establishment’s chickens are coming home to roost 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z For Tocqueville, that authority threatens whenever it expands its scope. The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z During a visit to Philadelphia, Alexis de Tocqueville was informed that, although the “lower classes” were drinking too much cheap liquor, politicians didn’t dare offend their constituents by imposing heavy taxes. Prohibition and the Penal State 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z This unique combination of religious and personal freedom, as Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw in the early 19th century, created an engine for prosperity of its citizens unlike any previous governmental experiment. Welcome to America 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z But the Second Bank became the “object of intense hatred”—so wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, who famously toured America in the 1830s. Why Americans Don’t Trust the Fed 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The only subject possible for an American poet was humankind; luckily, as Tocqueville wrote, “the poet needs no more.” How Ralph Waldo Emerson Changed American Poetry 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Tocqueville shows more deference to the governing structures of towns, counties and states than that of Washington. The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The democratic revolution of aspiration De Tocqueville witnessed in the early 19th century swept across the world, sparking longings for wealth, status and power in the most unpromising circumstances. How to think about Islamic State 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville recognized this truth on his travels through the United States almost two centuries ago: Seema Iyer breaks down Obergefell v. Hodges 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Ben Carson pushed a bogus quote from Alexis de Tocqueville and another bogus quote from Thomas Jefferson. Fake quotes run rampant among GOP candidates 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “It’s profoundly important,” said Hamburger, who compared the Hill decision to the growing momentum of protest ending in revolution that was described by Alexis de Tocqueville. Did A Judge Just Kick Off The Great Unraveling Of The Administrative State With SEC Ruling? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z “The Negro in the United States . . . is caught between two societies,” Tocqueville writes. The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z FRENCHMAN Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s and subsequently wrote the classic American Democracy, still widely read today. Today We Run As One: Innovative Philanthropy Still Thrives in U.S. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z It’s often attributed erroneously to Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19th-century French sociological observer of American mores, who noted the ways in which the new nation differed from its old-world origins. Why States Are Fighting About American History Class 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z America is great because America is good, in the words once credited to Alexis de Tocqueville, and when America is no longer good it will no longer be great. WESLEY PRUDEN: The CIA and the lack of political morality 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z When Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about the country in the 1830s, he was struck by the bottom-up vitality of its towns and villages. America’s prospects are promising indeed No, Tocqueville did not mention this particular cheer, but he knows the type. The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z This kind of initiative, Tocqueville noted, was how people learned to become the self-motivated citizens of a republic instead of the passive subjects of powerful monarchs and aristocrats. Today We Run As One: Innovative Philanthropy Still Thrives in U.S. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Tocqueville recognized the uniqueness of America, an exceptionalism rooted in the founding principles. Don't Let Elitists De-emphasize Patriotism in U.S. History Classes 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville, observing this country in the 1830s, said that Americans seemed exceptional in valuing practical attainments almost to the exclusion of the arts and sciences. From Bush to Obama: American exceptionalism is a plague on our collective conscience 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z So noted Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1836 classic, “Democracy in America”. Coming to America: Why the USA is Still Destination #1 For Entrepreneurs 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z I prefer Tocqueville’s diagnosis of the American character: “No one can work harder at being happy than Americans do,” he explains. The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Gilens and Page argue that their research conclusively disproves the “majoritarian electoral democracy” theory of government, espoused by everyone from Alexis de Tocqueville to Abraham Lincoln. The Politics of Always Ignoring What Average Americans Want 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Middle-ring relationships characterized the inner actions in the “townships” that Tocqueville lovingly described and that Dunkelman sees as the basis of our old-fashioned neighborhoods. Where goes the neighborhood? Tocqueville observed that the limits to the powers of the central government in that case were largely imposed by the practical limits of enforcement. 1776 2.0: The Front Lines Of The New Revolt 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z They share screen time with actors who impersonate Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, as well as Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political thinker who toured the United States more than 180 years ago. ‘America: Imagine the World Without Her’ movie review “The United States, it seems, is unmatched when it comes to arousing and sustaining our curiosity,” Tocqueville concludes. The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z An archivist at the library selected a few works for the students to see, including an original handwritten draft of de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America.” Warrior-Scholar Project Helps Veterans Enter Education Battle at Home 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Tocqueville famously regarded helping others as “self-interest, properly understood.” This Is How You Give Away a Massive Fortune 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville once said that the limits placed on the central power in the new world are different from the limits placed on national power in the old world. 1776 2.0: The Front Lines Of The New Revolt 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z As de Tocqueville put it, “a sovereign who seeks to relieve his subjects after a long period of oppression is lost, unless he be a man of great genius.” Charlemagne: Beware of europhoria 2014-05-08T14:57:57Z “A presidential election in the United States may be looked upon as a time of national crisis,” Tocqueville writes. The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Another responds by citing the works of French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, whose critique “De la democratie en Amerique” highlights the inherent dangers of democracy falling into the hands of despots. Warrior-Scholar Project Helps Veterans Enter Education Battle at Home 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Prof Jacob S Hacker of Yale and Prof Paul Pierson of the University of California - Berkeley Mr Piketty a modern-day Alexis de Tocqueville, presenting a new "panoramic vista" of US democracy and society. The French economist US liberals love 2014-04-26T01:13:58Z On the other hand, Tocqueville says, the Old World functioned quite differently. 1776 2.0: The Front Lines Of The New Revolt 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The “great thinkers” of the past were, for the most part, were those wealthy enough to think and be heard — Montesquieu, Smith, de Tocqueville, Keynes, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Freud, Darwin, Huxley. The real secret to making it as a writer: Be fabulously wealthy before you even start 2014-03-30T13:00:00Z What Alexis de Tocqueville called “the terrifying exactitude of memory” is burned into Ireland’s soil. Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia 2014-03-15T18:30:18Z They then are plunged into the works of de Tocqueville, Frederick Douglass, Felix Oppenheim and Isaiah Berlin with no support – at first. Warrior-Scholar Project Helps Veterans Enter Education Battle at Home 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z But don't forget how impressed Alexis de Tocqueville was with the strong civil society in America, in the days before there was an expansive paternalistic centralized government. Anti-poverty programmes: Are we helping the poor? 2013-12-18T16:52:59Z In it, de Tocqueville argues that the French Revolution was sparked not by a popular clamor for change, but by the regime's own efforts to reform. All for One: China's New Deal 2013-11-23T03:19:58Z Many of them, including Tocqueville and Montesquieu, connected the liberty that English-speakers took for granted to geography. Keep Free and Carry On 2013-11-16T04:17:50Z As noted by Alexis de Tocqueville nearly two centuries ago, the clout of America’s legal establishment is boosted by a national habit of asking judges to decide knotty political questions. Lexington: Lawyers, beware lawyers 2013-10-17T15:02:28Z In Democracy in America, De Tocqueville even uses the term “national character.” Grit, Optimism, And Other Buzzwords In The Way Of Education 2013-10-14T12:06:00Z Wallace was placed in isolation - first in Angola and later in St Gabriel, a punishment that "devours victims incessantly and unmercifully", at least according to Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of Democracy in America. Forty years of solitude 2013-10-03T00:00:59Z The French traveler Alexis De Tocqueville in the 1840s marveled at America’s many and varied “associations” formed to help others and for the public good. Giving Back: How Retiring Boomers Get the Rush They Crave 2013-09-19T18:17:25Z Most important, from what source is derived the legitimacy of this faceless power, this intangible, unaccountable authority that, as de Tocqueville regretted, trumps all others and exerts a dictatorship as uncontrollable as it is unlimited? The Dictatorship of Public Opinion 2013-09-11T08:45:00Z Of course, there was a considerable amount of charitable giving in the United States long before there was an income tax, as noted by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831. Today's Economist: The Charitable Deduction, Continued 2013-08-27T04:01:19Z The book, of which Professor Bellah was the lead author, takes its title from a phrase in Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential mid-19th-century work “Democracy in America.” Robert Bellah, Sociologist of Religion Who Mapped the American Soul, Dies at 86 2013-08-07T02:24:47Z Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s, noted that we have a tendency to form associations. Internet Password Protocol Not A Charitable Activity 2013-08-06T22:32:00Z Indeed if Alexis de Tocqueville is to be believed, early America was surprisingly uninventive. Globalism and Technology: A Hidden Misconception That Dooms the U.S. Economy 2013-03-31T08:47:56Z "If they just froze their production profiles, they'd be gushing cash flow," agrees Tocqueville's Mr. Hathaway. Why Gold Stocks Look Good 2012-12-08T01:21:51Z Tocqueville observed that these numerous organizations, covering all manner of endeavors, helped train people to become citizens of a republic. What Obama Doesn't Get About the U.S. 2012-10-17T21:40:04Z Alexis de Tocqueville said, that does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. Will Same-Sex Marriage Reach the Supreme Court? 2012-10-08T11:05:39Z With the goal of gleaning insight from modern-day Alexis de Tocquevilles, I decided to hop into that parallel universe to visit the other city known as Tourists’ New York. A Quest to See the City That Tourists So Love 2012-07-21T14:29:28Z The Price of Inequality is a powerful plea for the implementation of what Alexis de Tocqueville termed "self-interest properly understood". The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz – review 2012-07-13T10:00:01Z A few, such as Mr. Hathaway's Tocqueville Gold, also own some bullion. Why Gold Stocks Look Good 2012-12-08T01:21:51Z It is not unusual for the former high school football star and Rhodes Scholar to underscore his points by quoting Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, or Alexis de Tocqueville. Newark School Reform: About That $100 Million ... 2012-06-28T22:59:07Z After his famous journey to America in the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville returned home to France to report that “nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions among people.” Way of the World: America, Land of the Equals 2012-05-03T13:20:09Z For that even the books of De Tocqueville and Taine, spite of the strength of their authors' intellect and the wealth of their material, have not afforded us this, we shall soon convincingly see. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The late Monsieur de Tocqueville married for love, after a five years’ engagement. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Tocqueville alone seems to have viewed the nascent nation with the eye of prescience. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z ‘The Real Damage’ In 1831, the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville visited the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, where prison officials were pioneering a novel rehabilitation method based on Quaker principles of reflection and penitence. Rethinking Solitary Confinement 2012-03-10T22:59:14Z Alexis de Tocqueville said that in the United States things move from the impossible to the inevitable without stopping at the probable. An Interview With Victor Fuchs on Health Care Costs 2012-03-05T23:36:30Z The worst side of this centralization had been incontrovertibly exposed by De Tocqueville, but none the less his representation was unfair and unjust, because it made no mention of the brighter side. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z I must, however, conquer this so far as to tell you that you ought to read both Tocqueville and Beaumont on the United States. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z After all, to paraphrase Alexis de Tocqueville, in a democracy, we get the Internet we deserve. Google, Safari and our final privacy wake-up call 2012-02-22T13:50:00Z This rock," says the gifted De Tocqueville, "has become an object of veneration in the United States. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z I asked him where he was going to move to, and he hoped to sleep that night at the Refuge in the Rue Tocqueville, and afterwards he must find out some other place. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z But how without it, under the circumstances that succeeded to the religious wars and the Fronde, anything like a positive constitution ever could have arisen in France, De Tocqueville does not say. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z It is highly characteristic, both in its literary connexion with the profound and melancholy liberalism of Tocqueville, and in its almost savage onslaught on revolutionary legend and doctrine. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z It is an expression of the unyielding “tutelary power” of the administrative state foretold by Alexis de Tocqueville. Conflict over Obama's Contraception Rule Intensifies 2012-02-09T17:05:36Z His town halls have been marathon affairs, beginning with a discursive stump speech that whipsaws from Alexis de Tocqueville to Social Security, from Khrushchev to the intricacies of Griswold v. Santorum Stymied in New Hampshire? Hostile Crowds Greet GOP Upstart 2012-01-09T19:05:10Z Of this committee M. de Tocqueville has been appointed to draw up the report. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z It will be remembered to what pregnant results Tocqueville's inquiries led. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z So bleak is the news from the United States that it is easy to forget the American magic that Tocqueville found and so masterfully distilled in prose. Currents: Reviving the Idea of America 2011-12-16T13:27:44Z In the second edition Mill's letters are appended, in one of which he describes Tocqueville's opinion that one must not lower national pride, "almost the only elevated sentiment that remains in considerable strength." Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Byzantine war manuals contain careful notes on the deportment of foreign populations, and Americans still recognize themselves in the brilliant national portrait drawn by Alexis de Tocqueville more than 100 years ago. Which Nations Conform Most? 2011-12-01T14:45:05.430Z So let us fling no smallest pebble at the nation of Des Cartes, Montesquieu, Pascal, and De Tocqueville. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z The fundamental principles which appear so clearly and sharply in Tocqueville's development are prominent in Taine's; the activity of the earlier author prepared the ground for the later to build on. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Tocqueville saw himself fast becoming a citizen of the past, and so went to see about the onrushing future. Currents: Reviving the Idea of America 2011-12-16T13:27:44Z “The trend for freedom and democracy is irreversible,” said Anwar, who tells his party leaders to read French author Alexis de Tocqueville’s 19th-century political work “Democracy in America.” ‘Malaysia Spring’ Approaches in Anwar Vision for Election Win 2011-11-03T02:10:12Z It was at this time, while Alexis de Tocqueville was also preoccupied by the daily increasing gravity of the political situation at home, that he wrote the Recollections now first published. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z But the protest is also notable for scrupulous adherence to the sort of democratic values that Alexis de Tocqueville, a French chronicler of America, loved. Protests: Not quite together 2011-10-19T21:03:14Z Tocqueville himself tells how the Liberal parties before the Revolution thought more of reforms than liberties—that is to say, they expected the improvement of their condition from a further strengthening of the Monarchy. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Tocqueville, perhaps, offers clues to how to bring it back. Currents: Reviving the Idea of America 2011-12-16T13:27:44Z A harmony of Tocqueville was being laid over Newton’s melody. St. John?s College Puts Emphasis on What Teachers Don?t Know 2011-10-17T00:35:56Z I spent the few days preceding the contest at my poor, dear Tocqueville. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z Justice Breyer offered a suggested reading list, mentioning the Federalist Papers and Alexis de Tocqueville. Breyer and Scalia Testify at Senate Hearing 2011-10-06T06:20:44Z He’s the first French writer of distinction who has been to America since De Tocqueville; the French, in such matters, are not very enterprising. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z De Tocqueville, indeed, maintains that so far from there being any natural solidarity between democracy and socialism, they are absolutely contrary the one to the other. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Tocqueville Asset Management's CEO on bubbles, emotions in investing and the lessons of 2008. Forbes Editors On Steve Jobs' Resignation 2011-08-24T23:36:48Z France, state of, when Tocqueville becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs, 339. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z It was this that the young French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville saw on his visit to America in 1831. Reversing the Decay Behind London Undone 2011-08-19T23:21:51Z One of the features of our constitution which Mr. De Tocqueville most admires, is the utter separation of church and State. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z By this De Tocqueville does not mean sensual corruption of manners, for he believes that sensuality will be more moderate in a democracy than in other forms of society. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z It was a time when liberals followed Tocqueville’s idea that America was born free without having to become so. Gordon S. Wood, Historian of the American Revolution 2011-07-22T20:44:19Z Switzerland, Tocqueville's correspondence with, on the subject of the refugees, 343. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z Nearly 200 years later, the Tocqueville of our time, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam, made the same discovery. Reversing the Decay Behind London Undone 2011-08-19T23:21:51Z "Whence does this arise?" asks M. De Tocqueville; "have we really more sensibility than our forefathers?" The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The gradual development of the principle of equality," says De Tocqueville, "is a providential fact. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z De Tocqueville had a great name for political literature, but his icy mystifications melted away under Mazzini's fiery pen of principle, passion, and truth. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Alexis de Tocqueville was no more; and we may say that this proved at that time an irreparable loss to his country. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z Alexis de Tocqueville saw it then, Robert Putnam is saying it now. Reversing the Decay Behind London Undone 2011-08-19T23:21:51Z Wherever this fusion has not yet taken place, or but imperfectly, M. De Tocqueville's remarks still apply.—H. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Tocqueville, A. de, socialism and democracy, 19; democratic passion for equality, 24; middle-class materialization, 24; political necessity of religion, 25; the plutocracy, 186. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z The finest State papers seen in Europe for generations were those which Mazzini, when a Triumvir in Rome, wrote—notably those to De Tocqueville. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Alexis de Tocqueville was appointed an assistant judge, and in 1831 was sent to America, in company with G. de Beaumont to study the penal system in that continent. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z The first major study of us as a people, “Democracy in America,” was written by a French historian, Alexis de Tocqueville. Op-Ed Contributor: Vive la Similarit? 2011-07-14T02:57:33Z Mr. De Tocqueville ends by predicting that the Cherokees and Creeks, albeit they are half-breeds, and not, as Mr. Prichard affirms, pure aborigines, will, nevertheless, disappear before the encroachments of the whites. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z When de Tocqueville was in this country looking for evidences of democracy in America, he frankly states in the introduction to his epoch-making book that he saw more than there was. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Why this is so, I will not stop to explain at present, as I have no intention of writing a treatise à la De Tocqueville on the working of democratic institutions in America. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z I explained in a few words to Madame de Tocqueville what I had seen, and sat down in a corner to think. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z He thought he knew the United States; he even quoted Bryce and De Tocqueville; he had the impression that the Kaiser's propaganda of education was Germanising us for our good. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Mr. Reeve began his literary career by a translation of De Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” published in 1835. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z It signified that the leaven of Tocqueville’s ideas was working in those youthful hearts. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z In the first place, M. de Tocqueville enters boldly into the question between the republicans and monarchists. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z At the top of the hill which commands Tocqueville there came a halt; they wished me to speak. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z We did not ask De Tocqueville to come and see us and analyze our political institutions and their operations. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z Tocqueville caps this by saying that the more successful a democracy is in levelling a population, the less will be the resistance which the next despotism will encounter. The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 2011-05-11T02:00:18.513Z If Tocqueville’s guess is right, if democratic institutions are indeed ultimately to prevail throughout the world, certainly it cannot be denied that the prophet himself will have done his part toward fulfilling his prophecy. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z After a long struggle the subject was given to a committee, at the head of which was De Tocqueville. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z At Bonn a sudden indisposition obliged Madame de Tocqueville to stop. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z The French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville traveled to the United States in the 1830s, studying its institutions and mores, concluding as his literary predecessor had that Americans were unique. What they really mean by "American exceptionalism" 2011-04-08T12:30:00Z And if it fostered what de Tocqueville viewed as relentless monotony, its coordinates also enabled drivers and pedestrians to figure out where they stood, physically and metaphorically. 200th Birthday for the Map That Made New York 2011-03-21T00:25:00Z There was so much wholesome reaction in Tocqueville’s moral nature that, notwithstanding the disparaging views, on his part, thus revealed of human worth, he never became cynical. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z M. de Tocqueville denies this pretended Divine right, and maintains that of the nation to choose the form of government that may best suit it—a right which is absolute, superior, and indisputable. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z De Tocqueville, Letter of, about his wife, 21. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z On the 8th of July the Report of the committee to whom the petitions for a revision were referred, was presented by M. de Tocqueville. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Alexis de Tocqueville once observed that "the most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform itself." Egypt's Revolution: How Democracy Can Work in the Middle East 2011-02-03T07:05:00Z We refer to Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of that famous book, “Democracy in America.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z More than 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville declared that it is "the political effects of decentralization that I most admire in America." States' Rights and States' Wrongs on School Reform 2011-01-13T09:20:00Z De Tocqueville requires, there is publicity enough in New York! The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The two “rival nations,” spoken of by De Tocqueville, stood face to face. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Sixty-five years ago, de Tocqueville after his memorable tour through our country recorded his "firm belief" that for the Republic to be virtuous and progressive, we had "but to will it." The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics 2010-12-30T03:00:21Z Tocqueville held the belief that democracy, as a system of government, was destined to prevail universally. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I refer him for that to the Tocquevilles of every country, to our own Tocqueville especially. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z De Tocqueville was smart, Gallic and aristocratic - a 19th Century version of the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" that 21st Century Americans find so vexing. 'This is America son' 2010-12-18T11:45:12Z Lessig goes on to point out that there was one observer of the new republic, Alexis de Tocqueville, who understood its significance. Why e-books are a weight off my mind 2010-10-10T12:05:00Z Her book is intellectual as well as lively, referencing writers like Alexis de Tocqueville. Letter from China: Chinese Writers Give a Warmer Take on U.S. Democracy 2010-09-30T11:20:00Z Tocqueville, although, as we have intimated, a believer in the democratic destiny of the world, was not such in virtue of being a democrat by preference himself. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Leo Damrosch’s most recent books are “Tocqueville’s Discovery of America” and “Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius.” Book Review - Dreyfus - By Ruth Harris 2010-07-23T19:40:00Z The great French philosopher-statesman Alexis de Tocqueville once called for "a new political science for a new world". The new politics needs a realignment of the mind. It needs Caroline Lucas 2010-05-25T19:30:00Z "Parrot and Olivier in America" is a fictional re-imagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's journey to America in the early 1800s, during which the French political thinker examined the roots of America's democracy. Author Peter Carey bemoans U.S. Tea Party boom 2010-05-09T13:31:00Z He also approvingly quotes Tocqueville, who laments that people fear “every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble.” Book Review - Ill Fares the Land - By Tony Judt 2010-04-30T15:37:00Z Here is ripe practical wisdom occurring in a letter written by Tocqueville about two years before his death: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z That idea was later fortified by Alexis de Tocqueville’s concept of American exceptionalism, which suggested that the country was exempt from the bitter conflicts — class, religion, imperial ambition — that had convulsed Europe. In Texas Curriculum Fight, Identity Politics Leans Right 2010-03-20T20:45:00Z In 1833, when Tocqueville visited America, he was struck by the equal distribution of wealth and the absence of capitalists. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 Carey, who has lived in New York for about 20 years, explores Tocqueville's speculation that U.S. democracy could be at future risk of tyrannical rule -- and the coarsening of culture that would accompany it. Author Peter Carey bemoans U.S. Tea Party boom 2010-05-09T13:31:00Z This was the kind of American that Tocqueville found here in 1833. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The present writer remembers hearing Tocqueville taught to eager audiences of French students in the Coll�ge de France, at Paris, by M. Laboulaye, a popular professor in that national institution. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The last of the greater names calling for mention is that of Alexis de Tocqueville, who was born, of a noble Norman family, at Verneuil, in 1805. A Short History of French Literature The first publication of Mazzini's that attracted notice after his return to England, was his “Letter to Messrs. De Tocqueville and De Falloux, Ministers of France.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 "Everybody knows that Tocqueville was concerned and worried and that he feared the tyranny of the majority," Carey said in an interview in New York. Author Peter Carey bemoans U.S. Tea Party boom 2010-05-09T13:31:00Z Tocqueville comments on its absence among us; and it is, as all the advocates of civil-service reform know, very difficult to supply. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Present republican France owes, in no despicable degree, its existence to the fact that Tocqueville had visited, and reported, and interpreted the United States to his countrymen. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Tocqueville was educated for the bar, and called to it after the Restoration. A Short History of French Literature They can make our undertaking known to all who read, and can drop the same thought, as de Tocqueville says, into a thousand minds at the same moment. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde These and the other features characteristic of popular government on which Lowe savagely descanted were pieced together out of Plato and Tocqueville, coupled with his own disagreeable experiences of Australian politics. Studies in Contemporary Biography Lamartine's "History of the Girondists" and Tocqueville's "Democracy" were our bibles. Eyes Like the Sea On the whole, Alexis de Tocqueville’s own practice in life showed that he wrote not only with sincerity, but with earnestness, when he wrote those words. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Gogol may be said to have discovered Russia for the Russian, as Haxthausen discovered it for the West, and as De Tocqueville discovered America for the Americans. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy In criticising a professor of history famous in every way rather than as a student, Acton says, "his Lectures are indeed not entirely unhistorical, for he has borrowed quite discriminatingly from Tocqueville." The History of Freedom This has been admirably elucidated by De Tocqueville in his "Ancien Régime," in showing that the very prosperity of the reign of Louis XVI. prepared the way for its overthrow. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Mr. Reeve, the translator of De Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy,’ has preserved the memory of his father, Dr. Henry Reeve, by the republication of his ‘Journal of a Tour on the Continent.’ East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations It was not of such Frenchmen as was Tocqueville that the author of that heavy sentence on France could have been thinking—that the French character was made up without conscience. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z They do not, says de Tocqueville of the Americans, ask help. The Conflict between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship Tocqueville, who was writing the philosophic chapters that conclude his work, failed to discover the power which the new system was destined to exercise on democracy. The History of Freedom More than thirty years ago, De Tocqueville pronounced in their favor; De Witt, in his recent essay on Jefferson, comes to the same decision: both observers who have no party-feelings nor class-prejudices to mislead them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 All the feelings prognosticated by Tocqueville are shown to be fulfilled. The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion We, for our part, cannot but maintain that Tocqueville is as much more solid as he may be less brilliant than his predecessor and fellow, Montesquieu. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Take that commonness of mind and tone, which friendly foreign critics, from De Tocqueville to Bryce, have indicated as one of the dangers of our democracy. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Modern democracy presents many problems too various and obscure to be solved without a larger range of materials than Tocqueville obtained from his American authorities or his own observation. The History of Freedom Those who are now permitted to watch over the religious progress of the freedmen, can bring new and abundant proof to the assertion of De Tocqueville, that 'Christianity is a religion of freemen.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy From that point of view, after all, as Tocqueville said, the greatest theatre of human affairs is not at Sydney, it is not even at Washington, it is still in our old world of Europe. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 9: The Expansion of England Mill had been profoundly impressed by Tocqueville, and, indeed, by an order of reflections common to many intelligent observers. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice For an explanation of these defects, shall we fall back upon a convenient maxim of De Tocqueville's and admit with him that "a democracy is unsuited to meditation"? The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Taken for a universal law of history, this would be as visionary as certain generalisations of Montesquieu and Tocqueville; but with the necessary restrictions of time and place, it cannot fairly be disputed. The History of Freedom When De Tocqueville visited our country, he journeyed westward until he stood upon the very frontier of civilization. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character "From the moment of their first debate," said De Tocqueville, "Europe was moved." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III They show, therefore, an unusual appreciation of the constitutional side of French history; and he anticipated some of the results set forth with, of course, far greater knowledge of the subject, in Tocqueville's 'Ancien Régime.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Tocqueville said that the classes which compose society form so many distinct nations. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Although he has perceived more clearly than Tocqueville the contact of democracy with socialism, his judgment is untinged with Tocqueville's despondency, and he contemplates the direction of progress with a confidence that approaches optimism. The History of Freedom Alexander von Humboldt praised the accuracy of his researches and Alexis de Tocqueville referred to him as being better acquainted with European politics than any European with whom he was acquainted. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century I allude to the work of M. De Tocqueville on 'Democracy in America.' Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Tocqueville himself wrote very cordially to my father upon the subject; and the lectures have been valued by very good judges. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Already, then, there were writers who held somewhat superficially the conviction, which Tocqueville made a corner-stone, that nations that have not the self-governing force of religion within them are unprepared for freedom. Lectures on the French Revolution Seeing the inferiority of Falloux as a historian, he never appreciated the strong will and cool brain of the statesman who overawed Tocqueville. The History of Freedom But, as Monsieur de Tocqueville once remarked, we can offer it up as a sacrifice. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux Tocqueville's History of the reign of Louis XV., review of, 525. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Tocqueville and his friends had seen the danger from another point of view. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Half of them were already there, in time to be consulted both by Louis Blanc and Tocqueville. Lectures on the French Revolution Both Tocqueville and Turgot are said to have wavered on this point. The History of Freedom We can hardly have a better authority on this point than Tocqueville. The Map of Life Conduct and Character They follow De Tocqueville, and De Tocqueville follows Biot in speaking of the serf system as abolished in most of France hundreds of years before this. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 M. de Tocqueville is known to the world chiefly by two great works. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 About the middle of the fifties, when Sybel's earlier volumes were coming out, the deeper studies began in France with Tocqueville. Lectures on the French Revolution It was a favourite doctrine with Webster and Tocqueville that the beliefs of the pilgrims inspired the Revolution, which others deem a triumph of pelagianism; while J.Q. The History of Freedom All the educated, in the opinion of Tocqueville, condemned and repudiated the Coup d'état. The Map of Life Conduct and Character De Tocqueville, if we remember, never saw his guests until after he had finished his morning's work, of which he had done six hours by eleven o'clock. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 6: Harriet Martineau Tocqueville's was that of wide observation and bitter disappointment. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Two years later, in 1858, a work began to appear which was less new and less polished than Tocqueville's, but is still more instructive for every student of politics. Lectures on the French Revolution It has been said that Tocqueville never understood the federal constitution. The History of Freedom I am not trusting to my own limited observation in arriving at this conclusion; I find in M. de Tocqueville's work an assertion of the same fact. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) Yet it was a happy country, as the pages of Tocqueville bear witness. Historical Essays Tocqueville spoke from a point of vantage, such as few other men have attained, upon a theme which he had studied profoundly in youth, and upon which Fate had ever since been writing elaborate commentaries. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 When I describe the real study of the Revolution as beginning with Tocqueville and Ternaux, I mean the study of it in the genuine and official sources. Lectures on the French Revolution The process of development by which the America of Tocqueville became the America of Lincoln has been lately described with a fulness of knowledge which no European can rival. The History of Freedom The fears and hopes of the citizen guided and sustained in Tocqueville a philosophical intelligence. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. These remarks of M. de Tocqueville apply to some extent to Canada where there has been a manifest decline in the standing and ability of our public men. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada One of the most remarkable and interesting points in Tocqueville's conversations, as recorded by Mr. Senior, is the value which he and other interlocutors ascribe to the English Poor Law. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 ‘If I were asked to class human miseries,’ said Tocqueville, ‘I would do so in this order: first, Disease; second, Death; third, Doubt.’ Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre Once a year he went to Paris, and he paid more than one visit to De Tocqueville at his home in Normandy. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch It ought to be placed near De Tocqueville's "Ancient Régime" and "Democracy in America." Confessions of a Book-Lover The reign of Louis XV. is peculiarly favourable for a writer possessed of the philosophic mind, calm judgment, and contemplative turn of M. de Tocqueville. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 “De Tocqueville, the French philosopher, considered that the chief cause of the great prosperity of the American nation is the superiority of the women; now we are to hear to-night how these women are produced.” The Education of American Girls But Tocqueville was an aristocrat, as Guizot once told him, who accepted his defeat. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre Mr Tocqueville observes, “that not a single individual of the twelve millions who inhabit the territory of the United States has as yet dared to propose any restrictions upon the liberty of the press.” Diary in America, Series Two Having admired the lovely view from the "Tour des quatre vents," we descended to the kitchen of the farmer who rents the house, which now belongs to the Tocqueville family. Brittany & Its Byways M. De Tocqueville is one of the greatest, perhaps the very greatest, of the political philosophers of the present day. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 M. de Tocqueville shows however that the prime minister Maurepas only feared the Americans because he was embarrassed in his position, and thought to relieve himself by making war with England. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 "America, then, exhibits in her social state an extraordinary phenomenon," wrote De Tocqueville in his notable study of American democracy. Union and Democracy I have inserted in an Appendix the Form of the American Constitution, and if my readers wish to examine more closely into it, I must refer them to M. Tocqueville’s excellent work. Diary in America, Series Two Tocqueville, whose insight into republican institutions was marvellous, distinctly traces our prosperity, in his survey of American democracy, to universal suffrage, with all that it necessitates. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 M. de Tocqueville possesses one most important quality, in addition to his calm judgment and discriminating sagacity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 The Count de Tocqueville, a relative of the author of "Democracy in America," has just published a historical work on the Reign of Louis XVI. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 "In this part of the American continent," observes De Tocqueville, "population has escaped the influence not only of great names and great wealth, but even of the natural aristocracy of knowledge and virtue." Union and Democracy I shall therefore conclude with an extract from M. Tocqueville, who attempts in vain to come to any approximation. Diary in America, Series Two Lanfrey and De Tocqueville, loving truth for its own sake, slashes away without caring for the practical result. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 We augur the more favourably for M. De Tocqueville's lasting fame, from his being no longer quoted by party writers on either side of the questions which divide society. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 In speaking of the mission of Franklin at the French Court, M. de Tocqueville gives some interesting details. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Tocqueville, De, on equality in America, 300; on the character of Western society, 301. Union and Democracy In France, democracy is still occupied in the work of destruction; in America, it reigns quietly over the ruins it has made.”—Democracy in America, by A De Tocqueville. Diary in America, Series Two One more extract from De Tocqueville will give a view of this part of the subject, which any one, familiar with Western life, will admire for its verisimilitude. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School M. De Tocqueville sums up in these eloquent words which close his work, the tendency and final result of the government of the Regent Orleans and Louis XV.:— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Monsieur de Tocqueville was as much prepossesed by his own peculiar views of the nature of human society as Mrs. Trollope. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 "A new and fair division of the goods and rights of this world should be the main object of all those who conduct human affairs," said De Tocqueville. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Mr Tocqueville observes, “I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind, and freedom of discussion, as in America.” Diary in America, Series Two The following extract from the work of De Tocqueville, exhibits the opinion of an impartial observer, when comparing American manners with those of the English, who are confessedly the most aristocratic of all people. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School After these quotations, it is needless to say what the merits of M. De Tocqueville's work are. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 His translation of the 'Democracy in America,' by Tocqueville, which appeared in 1835, strengthened his hold on French society. Historical and Political Essays Weak and prejudiced minds receive the doctrines of a philosopher like Tocqueville as dictations: he pronounced ex cathedra his doctrines, and it is heresy to gainsay them. Canada and the Canadians Volume I De Tocqueville has solemnly warned our Democracy of that over-faith in public opinion which tends to become a species of religion of which the Majority is the prophet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 De Tocqueville pronounced an exquisite eulogy by the grave of Ballanche, in the name of the Academy. The Friendships of Women The reign," says Tocqueville, "of Louis XIV. finished: that of Louis XV. commenced. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 The best book I have read—Ticknor's "Prescott," Alger's "Future Life," Furness's "Veil Partly Lifted," etc., notwithstanding—is De Tocqueville's "Ancient Regime and the Revolution." Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Verily, Monsieur De Tocqueville, you are in the right—democracy is an inherent principle. Canada and the Canadians Volume I With the toast was associated the following sentiment from De Tocqueville: "The peace, the prosperity, and the very existence of the Union are vested in Federal Judges." Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O A De Tocqueville is a truer and more adequate teacher. The Friendships of Women M. De Tocqueville, it is well known, is a firm believer in the progress of society to a general system of equality and popular government. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 De Tocqueville's Democracy in America was widely read in England and doubtless had its influence in revising opinion concerning America. From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy The last was simply the triumph of democratic absolutism by universal suffrage, in place of autocratic or monarchic absolutism, as De Tocqueville clearly demonstrated in his 'Ancient Regime and the Revolution.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 These are the Federal judges, the name which De Tocqueville applies to them. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O She said little," De Tocqueville avers, "but knew what each man's forte was, and led him to it. The Friendships of Women M. de Tocqueville calls the history he has recently published, and which forms the subject of this article,—"A Philosophic History of the Reign of Louis XV." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Even M. de Tocqueville exaggerated the evils existing when he wrote his famous work, and forecast catastrophes that have never arisen and seem daily less and less likely ever to arise. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin |
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