New Links for our Tocqueville Readings

Exit UVA, enter Marxists.org.

The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain by Jerome B. Thompson, 1858. Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art

If you’ve tried to read the Tocqueville selections in the past few days, you may have hit a notice that UVA has taken down its XRoads texts. You can, however, read the passages here and here.

Our discussion of Tocqueville’s ideas on ambition will be…