The Birth of the Democratic Social Contract, 1800-1850
Our director Stephen Sawyer will be giving a talk entitled “The Birth of the Democratic Social Contract, 1800-1850” at the SPOT seminar on Political Theory at Sciences Po on February […]
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Stephen Sawyer: Director and Founder
Stephen W. Sawyer is the founder and Director of Tocqueville 21, Director of Publications of The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, and Director of the Center for Critical Democracy at the American University of Paris.
Listen to: Tocqueville 21 Director Prof. Stephen Sawyer on France Culture
Listen to Tocqueville 21’s Director Prof. Stephen Sawyer on France Culture’s Les Chemins de la Philosophie as he discusses Tocqueville, public opinion, and democracy. LISTEN HERE
MoreThe Democratic Promise of “Deradicalization”
The authors of this essay are members of the “DeRadicalisation in Europe and Beyond: Detect, Resolve, Reintegrate” research project funded by the European Research Council. Recent mass shootings in […]
MoreFrom Anti-Fascism to Anti-Imperialism: Three Questions for Giuliana Chamedes
Giuliana Chamedes, Mellon-Morgridge Professor of European International History at the University of Wisconsin, gave at recent talk entitled “Anti-Fascism as a Differentially Mobilizing Ideology: Anti-Imperialism and the Failed Globalization of the […]
MoreCan a Presidential Election Save American Democracy?
Back in the fall of 2020, as the post-summer threats of Covid-19 were doing little to assuage the anxieties of the upcoming American presidential election, I received a message from […]
MoreBeyond the Ruins
This is the first post in our review forum of Wendy Brown’s In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West (Columbia University Press, 2019). With […]
MoreThe Need for Neodemocracy
We live in a neoliberal age. For ideological reasons bound up in the epic struggle against totalitarianisms both left and right, a bold experiment in hyper-liberalism took root in the […]
MoreThe Political Limits of Axel Honneth’s Idea of Socialism
This is the third of three reviews in our series on Axel Honneth’s The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal (Polity, 2017). Axel Honneth’s Idea of Socialism is an […]
MoreTocqueville, Theorist of the State
This article is adapted from Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880, by Stephen W. Sawyer (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Perhaps no one in […]
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L’affaire Lilla
Lilla swings hard. On almost every page of this essay we learn that as far as American politics goes, someone has done or is doing something they shouldn’t; someone […]
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