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Book in the spotlight: The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville is primarily known for Democracy in America, his penetrating analysis of democracy (and not only of the one in America). While the work is an indisputable masterpiece, it has the effect of eclipsing his other texts. I am thinking here of The…
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What one 19th-century book can teach us about freedom at a time when freedom is in retreat Of all the books bandied about in discussions of our current quasi-dystopian reality (more than a year and counting), Alexander Herzen’s From the Other Shore is not one likely to be mentioned. Nor is Herzen himself much of a household…