Ben: Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. When people talk about America and when people talk about democracy, they talk first about one man: Alexis de Tocqueville and his book Democracy In America ...

One cannot preserve a free society merely through legal reforms or economic deregulation. One must cultivate citizens capable ...

So I welcomed Alexis de Tocqueville as a fellow outsider who had also set out to understand Americans. Born 200 years ago this month, the author of Democracy in America wound up explaining this ...

They may therefore be less likely to develop skills in the “art of association” that Alexis de Tocqueville thought was an essential feature of America’s dynamic democracy. Gen Z bears no ...