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Tocqueville in 2026: 'Should we examine the recent developments in American society to analyze how democracies die?'

The French publisher Calmann-Lévy is reissuing Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America' (1835). In a new preface, Dominique Schnapper, a sociologist and political scientist at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, examines American political life under President Trump. Here are excerpts.