I have been reading Tocqueville again lately, prompted by our nation’s semiquincentennial celebrations. Looking at where we are today, it is hard not to wonder: if Alexis de Tocqueville showed up in ...

Few people who analyzed early American democracy remain as relevant as Alexis de Tocqueville. He held up a mirror to a very young United States, and his ideas about an overlooked American freedom of ...

Jon Hartley is right that Alexis de Tocqueville deserves a monument in Washington. (“Tocqueville Deserves a Washington Statue,” op-ed, July 8). The bicentennial of his “Democracy in America” in 2035 ...

Some more thoughts from the Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville. 1. This first statement is brilliant and perceptive beyond description. America, 2026: “When the taste for physical gratifications among ...

The sheer presence of the locomotive drew crowds. Celebrations were formed among strangers for a couple of reasons: The locomotive is a reminder of what American workers, engineers and laborers are ...

A park in Washington features a statue of Edmund Burke. Dedicated in 1922, the bronze likeness on Massachusetts Avenue honors a British statesman who never set foot on American soil. Yet his inclusion ...

If Alexis de Tocqueville was right in observing that the American nation insists upon “perpetual adoration of itself,” why have Americans been such devoted readers of Democracy in America for almost ...