About
Welcome to De Tocquville US. The purpose of this blog is to explore and discuss Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Although Democracy in America was written in 1835, de Tocqueville’s work is incredibly relevant to today. It can help us to understand where we’ve come from and to then compare that to where we are now. Given the changes that are occurring in our society, understanding where we’ve come from is more important than ever. My hope is that we can discover the elements of our society that contributed to the establishment of the United States as the world’s singular example of democratic government and what we can do to maintain our democracy.
The plan will be to work through the book one chapter or so at a time, with posts at least once a week (probably on the weekend). Thanks for stopping by!
- duane