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Alexis de Tocqueville
April 22, 2022
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Jedediah Britton-Purdy
Tocqueville’s Uneasy Vision of American Democracy
American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.
March 17, 2022
Magazine
Win McCormack
Fanfare for the Common Good
What happened to Americans’ sense of community?
September 25, 2020
Magazine
Win McCormack
How to Make Progressivism Mean Something Again
A message to the American left
October 17, 2019
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Win McCormack
Fukuyama’s Inner Civic Republicanism (Part 1)
The end of history, 30 years on
August 23, 2018
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Win McCormack
False Concepts of Liberty
How to argue with a Koch brother
February 16, 2018
Magazine
Win McCormack
Liberalism After Liberalism
The civic republican tradition and its lost treasure
June 8, 2012
Deirdre N. McCloskey
Happyism
February 8, 2012
Subscribers Only
Timothy Noah
The Mobility Myth
Why everyone overestimates American equality of opportunity.
Subscribers Only
June 18, 2011
Mark Lilla
The Prophet
Mark Lilla reviews "Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life", by Hugh Brogan
March 14, 2011
Carl Gershman
The Fourth Wave
October 1, 2010
Lawrence Lessig
Sorkin vs. Zuckerberg
December 16, 2009
Damon Linker
An Unexceptional Nation
July 31, 2006
Peter Beinart
Wall Eyed
December 19, 2005
Lawrence F. Kaplan
American Idle
April 9, 2001
Jeffrey Rosen
Federal Offense
October 5, 1998
Rochelle Gurstein
The Tender Democrat
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