An interdisciplinary collection of historical and comparative articles on civil society and the social capital debate.

One of France's leading and most controversial political thinkers explores the central themes of Tocqueville's writings: the democratic revolution and the moder

We live in the democratic age. So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, in 1835, in his magisterial work, Democracy in America. This did not mean, as so many have believ

What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a