LUZERNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Over the Flag Day weekend in Pennsylvania, crowds gathered, and communities were formed in the most unlikely of places, under viaducts, along gravel-filled tracks and at ...
Back to Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America main page Transcript for: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America Ben: Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. When people ta ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alexis de Tocqueville went to America in 1831 to discover democracy. Democracy in America is often treated as a book about the United States, and of course it is. Tocqueville observed American ...
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 ...
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 ...
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Over the Flag Day weekend in Pennsylvania, crowds gathered, and communities were formed in the most unlikely of places, under viaducts, along gravel-filled tracks and at ...
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