Robespierre and Democracy: Four Perspectives
Robespierre and Democracy: Four Perspectives It is just over two hundred and twenty eight years since Maximilien Robespierre fell from power. And yet Robespierre still has the capacity to incite […]
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David Klemperer
David Klemperer is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London, researching the political and intellectual history of French socialism. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from the University of Oxford. Outside of academia he has worked in think tanks, as a researcher on Brexit and the UK constitution.Biopolitics! At the “Monument aux Mères Françaises”
Biopolitics! At the “Monument aux Mères Françaises” Some reflections on a natalist installation Wandering through Paris a couple of weeks ago, I came across a small park just off […]
MoreThe French Left’s “Historic” Unity
The French Left’s “Historic” Unity The deal has been made. Days after Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Olivier Faure embraced one another at the May Day march in Paris, their parties […]
MoreComparative Democracy
This is the introduction to our forum on Martin Conway’s new book Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945-1968. 1. Embedded Democracy – Chris Bickerton 2. Comprendre les démocraties européennes après la […]
MoreLiberalism, anti-liberalism, French democracy – Revue de Presse: 6 February 2022
Liberalism In an intriguing essay for Engelsberg Ideas, Samuel Gregg offers an introduction to the thought of Jacques Rueff – arguably one of France’s most influential liberal thinkers. A […]
MoreRevue de Presse: 31 October 2021
French politics French politics has been unusually present in the US media of late: in Jacobin, Harrison Stetler reports on Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s presidential candidacy, which so […]
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 […]
MoreInterview: Chantal Mouffe on democracy, populism, and why the Left needs to read Spinoza
Chantal Mouffe is a democratic theorist whose work as been cited as an inspiration for radical political movements across the globe, and who has elicited controversy for her advoacy […]
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