Tocqueville, Violence, and the Contemporary Crisis of American Partisanship
At the end of Volume I of Democracy in America, in a section entitled “On Republican Institutions in the United States: What Are the Chances of Their Survival,” Alexis de […]
Tocqueville 21 Podcast: Human Rights with Kerstin Carlson
Tocqueville 21 · Human Rights with Kerstin Carlson We’re happy to announce the release of the third episode of the Tocqueville 21 podcast! This week, we continue our short […]
Tocqueville 21 Podcast: American Foreign Policy with Peter Zeihan
Tocqueville 21 · American Foreign Policy with Peter Zeihan We’re proud to announce that the second episode of the Tocqueville 21 podcast is available today! This week, we begin a […]
“Scots and Catalans”: Comparing separatisms
Review of J.H. Elliot, Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion (Yale University Press). Are the United Kingdom and Scotland barreling toward a crisis over Scottish independence of […]
The Morning After
The 2021 regionals are history. What to make of the results? First, the vast majority of voters continued to abstain. Second, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National suffered a severe setback. […]
Introducing the Tocqueville 21 Podcast: French Politics with Art Goldhammer
Tocqueville 21 · French Politics with Art Goldhammer We are proud to launch the Tocqueville 21 Podcast! Our goal is for this podcast to be a forum to explore in-depth […]
Has Le Pen Peaked?
The Guardian asked me to comment on last Sunday’s election. You can read the article here. Of course, the RN could still take PACA next Sunday, but the idea that […]
Les liaisons dangereuses de l’État
Review essay on Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France, The Neoliberal Republic: Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France (Cornell University Press, 2021) En 1976, dans un […]
Revue de Presse: 21 June
James McAuley, until recently the Paris correspondent for the Washington Post, has received glowing coverage of his book “The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall […]
A Hot Take on a Very Cool Electorate
The headline that emerges from the first round of this year’s regional elections is that, once again, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National did not achieve the gains anticipated by many […]