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The Case of Ireland and the Case of Britain

16 April 2024 | Tocqueville 21

** This is the second in a series of three reviews of James Stafford’s The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. Each day this week one review […]

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The Pantheonization of Missak Manouchian

19 June 2023 | Arthur Goldhammer

Emmanuel Macron has decided to honor the Resistance leader Missak Manouchian by placing his remains in the Panthéon. An Armenian immigrant, Manouchian led the FTP-MOI (Franc-Tireurs et Partisans de la […]

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Liberalism, anti-liberalism, French democracy – Revue de Presse: 6 February 2022

6 February 2022 | David Klemperer

  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 […]

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Paxton Refutes Zemmour

2 December 2021 | Arthur Goldhammer

In an interview with Le Monde, historian Robert Paxton refutes Éric Zemmour’s contention that Vichy sacrificed “foreign” Jews to save “French” Jews. One hopes that this admirably concise statement of […]

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Trump, Fascism, and French History

29 January 2021 | Chris Millington

  On 6 January 2021, a mob of demonstrators broke into and ransacked the US Capitol. Five people, including one police officer, died during the violence. The demonstrators had gathered […]

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Tocqueville ’21: Pondering the Future

20 January 2021 | Tocqueville 21

We held our first editorial meeting the morning after the attack on the US Capitol. This is a blog dedicated to exploring twentieth-first century democracy, and while much about the […]

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La tâche de l’historien

7 January 2021 | Emmanuel Jousse

  Ceci est notre deuxième recension du dernier ouvrage d’Emile Chabal, une courte histoire de la France depuis 1940: France (Polity, 2020).   Pour un lecteur français, l’essai d’Emile Chabal suscite […]

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Revue de Presse: October 25

25 October 2020 | Tocqueville 21

For the past several weeks, Charlie Hebdo columnist and novelist Yannick Haenel, together with the cartoonist François Boucq, has been chronicling the trials of alleged accomplices of the 2015 attackers against […]

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L’Italie face aux épidémies : un retour de l’histoire ?

30 March 2020 | Stéphane Malsagne

A l’heure où l’épidémie de Covid-19 place l’Italie du nord (Lombardie) comme l’un des épicentres majeurs de la pandémie mondiale avec le plus fort nombre de victimes à ce jour, […]

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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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Sur les mœurs intellectuelles de Tocqueville

13 September 2019 | Antoine Pageau St-Hilaire

  Le second volume de La Démocratie en Amérique traite des mœurs démocratiques, ce par quoi Tocqueville entend le sens large qu’avait le latin mores : « tout l’état moral et intellectuel d’un […]

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Tocqueville’s Democratic Historians

18 August 2019 | Danielle Charette

We’ve decided to experiment with a new feature on the blog called “close-reading Tocqueville.” The premise is simple: we’ll periodically select one chapter from Tocqueville’s corpus and comment on what […]

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A Look Back at 1968

2 August 2018 | Arthur Goldhammer

For those of us who came of age in the ’60s, 1968 was an annus mirabilis. I look back at those tumultuous times in an article for The Nation.   Photo […]

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Sex and Secularism: For a Critical History

12 June 2018 | Joan Wallach Scott

This is Joan Wallach Scott’s reply to her four reviewers in our critical exchange on her book Sex and Secularism. To see the four reviews, follow the link here.   I […]

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