Revue de presse – December 12, 2022
At The New Republic this week, they have a series of essays on America in 2050. “Will the United States still be one nation? Should it be?” they ask. Matthew […]
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Christopher Schaefer
Christopher Schaefer is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include American foreign policy intellectuals, Cold War think tanks, foreign correspondents, and the relationship between Catholicism and liberalism.The End of an Era: Twitter and the Midterms
In tomorrow’s midterm elections, I will vote in person for the first time since 2008. For the past decade and a half, I lived abroad in several countries in Africa […]
MoreCCDS EVENT: Book Launch “Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe” – Umut Korkut (TODAY, 13H)
On Friday, October 14th, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will be hosting a book launch for Professor Umut Korkut’s (Glasgow Caledonian University) new co-edited volume with Professor James […]
MoreFULL BOOK FORUM: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Olivier Zunz)
** The past two weeks, we have published four reviews of Olivier Zunz’s new biography of Alexis de Tocqueville—two in French, two in English—followed by a response by Zunz. The […]
MoreFrench News in English: an Interview with the Editors of “Le Monde in English”
Tocqueville 21: First of all, congratulations on the launch of Le Monde in English! The editors, contributors, and readers at Tocqueville 21 all know Le Monde well. In my own […]
MoreElections legislatives, Ukraine, la vie académique américaine très controversée — Revue de Presse : 2 mai 2022
Revue de presse du 2 mai 2022 Suite à la victoire d’Emmanuel Macron à la présidentielle, l’attention se tourne vers les législatives du 12 juin. La question de l’abstentionnisme, qui […]
MoreA Panel Response: What to Take Away from the Second Round of the French Elections?
To debrief the second round of the French presidential elections, Tocqueville 21 has invited a distinguished set of academics, journalists, and commentators on French politics to provide their thoughts on […]
MoreA Panel Response: What to Take Away from the Second Round of the French Elections?
To debrief the second round of the French presidential elections, Tocqueville 21 has invited a distinguished set of academics, journalists, and commentators on French politics to provide their thoughts on […]
MoreA Panel Response: What to Take Away from the First Round of the French Elections?
To debrief the first round of the French presidential elections, Tocqueville 21 has invited a distinguished set of academics, journalists, and commentators on French politics to provide their thoughts on […]
MoreLes bonnes feuilles : “Tocqueville, Napoleon, and History-Writing in a Democratic Age” (David A. Bell)
In a wonderful contribution to the newest issue of The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2021), David A. Bell writes about Alexis de Tocqueville’s reflections […]
MoreTocqueville’s Oeuvres Complètes Tome XVII: “Correspondance à divers”
In the Times Literary Supplement, Michael Sonenscher has reviewed the final volume of Tocqueville’s Œuvres Complètes: Quite a few people, setting out for their first visit to, say, China from […]
MoreRevue de presse : 19 septembre 2021
Sur les deux rives de l’Atlantique, les statues font partie du débat actuel sur la mémoire collective. Pour la Vie des idées, Arnaud Exbalin commente Les statues de la discorde, […]
MoreNew Lows in Old Alliances
The surprise announcement on Wednesday, September 15, of a new naval defense partnership between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom blindsided French President Emmanuel Macron. In 2016, Australia […]
MoreSamuel Moyn’s Humane – Full Forum
** Last week, Tocqueville 21 published a book forum consisting of four reviews of Samuel Moyn’s new book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War followed by […]
MoreThe Final Volumes of The Complete Works of Tocqueville
On June 3, 2021, Gallimard published volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Tome XVII of the Complete Works of Tocqueville. With the addition of these three volumes of Tocqueville’s […]
MoreHow to Lose a War
Review of Elie Baranets, Comment perdre une guerre : Une théorie du contournement démocratique (CNRS Editions, 2017) In November 1968, Daniel Ellsberg wrote a review of a book-length debate with […]
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