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In 2008, the French critic Lucien Jaume published an interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that won a prize from the Académie Française. An English version by the eminent translator Arthur ...

On Heirs & Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy, by Eleanor Doughty. The House of Lords would then comprise about 740 life peers, created by recent prime ministers. Life peerages were ...

“There is a natural aristocracy among men,” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams from Monticello, in 1813, in one of the best-known passages from their vast post-Presidential correspondence. “There is ...

This exceedingly interesting study of old and new money in 19th-century New York City can be read as a companion piece to the fiction of Henry James and, most particularly, Edith Wharton. Eric ...

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing ...

We pride ourselves on having abolished the hereditary privileges once associated with aristocracy. But our citizenship system replicates many of the same evils. A US passport. The privileges ...

China’s newly appointed anti-corruption head, Vice Premier Wang Qishan, recently called on party officials to read the classic book by French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and French ...