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Revue de presse

Equality, Federalism, and Tocqueville in Ukraine – Revue de Presse: 6 March 2022

6 March 2022 | Sarah Gustafson

First off, an exciting conclusion to an exciting series: Samuel Moyn of Yale has been giving the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford on the theme of “The Cold War and the […]

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Revue de Presse: 24 October 2021

24 October 2021 | Sarah Gustafson

  To start off this week, two columns in The Week by Samuel Goldman.  First, Goldman urges those following developments in American higher education to reflect on the “institutional distinctives” […]

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Revue de Presse: January 31

31 January 2021 | Tocqueville 21

  Does militaristic foreign policy give carte blanche to civil strife at home? After the recent Capitol riots, the idea that “you reap what you sow” has circulated in the US […]

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Books/Livres / Interviews/Entretiens

Education and Property for All: Thomas Piketty on Capital and Ideology

24 February 2020 | Thomas Piketty

With the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century in 2013, Thomas Piketty became perhaps the world’s best-known chronicler and theorist of global inequality. His latest book, Capital and Ideology, […]

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The Academy and Democracy / Art Goldhammer's Blog / Focus

Démocratie dans la rue, démocratie en danger

30 January 2020 | Arthur Goldhammer

  En Avril 2019, Arthur Goldhammer a prononcé ce discours aux étudiants de l’Université de Chicago. Nous sommes reconnaissants de sa permission de publier ses remarques dans notre forum sur […]

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The Academy and Democracy / Le Club / Focus

La politique de l’université en France

21 January 2020 | Hervier

Pour les universités, le plus grand événement politique de ce début de siècle [1] est, par l’étendue de ses conséquences, la loi LRU d’août 2007, qui reste attachée au nom […]

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Revue de Presse : 19 janvier

19 January 2020 | Tocqueville 21

La revue Dissent consacre son dernier numéro à la question de « la démocratie et le barbarisme », réinterprétant la fameuse phrase de Rosa Luxembourg (« socialisme ou barbarisme ») […]

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The Academy and Democracy / Le Club / Focus

Gender and Meritocracy: A Historical Perspective

14 January 2020 | Emily J. Levine

  Meritocracy is out of fashion. It is critiqued by those concerned with social mobility and for its threat to academic excellence. For all of the hand-wringing, though, there hasn’t […]

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Equality in Fits and Starts

30 December 2019 | Tim Lacy

The ideas of equality and egalitarianism make hard demands in the context of higher education. While modern participants in higher education generally believe in the equality of persons, or even […]

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The Academy and Democracy / Focus

In American Higher Ed, Hierarchy Begets Hierarchy

14 December 2019 | Ethan Ris

This is a commentary in our special forum on the Academy and Democracy, jointly hosted with the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. We asked contributors whether higher education […]

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From Democracy in the Streets to Democracy in Danger

6 December 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

  In April 2019, Arthur Goldhammer delivered the following speech to the University of Chicago Democracy Initiative and Social Sciences Collegiate Division. We are grateful for his permission to reprint […]

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Balcony and Scaffold: Literary Theory and High School English, in the 1960s

29 November 2019 | Andrew Newman

This is a commentary in our special forum on the Academy and Democracy, jointly hosted with the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. We asked contributors whether higher education […]

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The Academy and Democracy / Focus

Higher Education and the Stuff of Revolutions

22 November 2019 | Simon Brown

Over the next two months, Tocqueville 21 will be coordinating with the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog to co-publish commentaries in our special forum on the Academy and Democracy. We […]

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Revue de presse

Revue de Presse: July 20

20 July 2019 | Tocqueville 21

Welcome to Tocqueville 21’s weekly revue de presse, where we recap some of the most thought-provoking articles we’ve seen on democracy and politics in France, the US, and beyond. As […]

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Art Goldhammer's Blog

From Democracy in the Streets to Democracy in Danger

24 April 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

Above is the video of a talk I gave at the University of Chicago on April 17 at the invitation of Prof. James Sparrow. The text is below, for anyone […]

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Le Club

Central European University—Sous aucun autre nom

23 January 2019 | Una Blagojevic, Cody James Inglis, Ivana Michaela Zimbrek

Una Blagojević, Cody James Inglis, et Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek ont été ou sont actuellement doctorants à la Central European University. Cet article a paru en anglais le 9 décembre 2018. Traduction […]

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Central European University—Under No Other Name

9 December 2018 | Una Blagojevic, Cody James Inglis, Ivana Michaela Zimbrek

  The authors of this post, Una Blagojević, Cody James Inglis, and Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek, are current and former graduate students at Central European University. Lire cet article en français.   The […]

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