Waging war on American democracy
Review: Adam Hochschild, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (Mariner Books) “The world must be made safe for democracy.” That was American president […]
MoreTocqueville 21 Podcast: Democracy in the United States and the 2022 Midterms with Pascale Siegel
Tocqueville 21 · Democracy in the United States and the 2022 Midterms with Pascale Siegel Season’s Greetings, and welcome back to the Tocqueville 21 Podcast. Today we discuss US politics, […]
MoreTocqueville and Property-Owning Democracy
There are few genealogies of “property-owning democracy.”[1] This is a remarkable fact. In Britain and the United States competing visions of the idea have exerted a profound influence over both […]
MoreReview: Paul Sabin’s “Public Citizens”
A book review of Paul Sabin’s Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism (W.W. Norton & Co., 2021) 1965 marked the highpoint for […]
MoreCivic Duty and Racial Tyranny: Reading Tocqueville at the Limits of American Democracy
Almost two years ago, on a February day in 2020, three men chased Ahmaud Arbery through a coastal Georgia suburb with pick-up trucks and guns and killed him. Arbery was […]
MoreKathryn Sikkink’s “The Hidden Face of Rights”
Kathryn Sikkink, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities (Yale University Press, 2020) Kathryn Sikkink, Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, is one of the […]
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