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The Atlantic The New American Empire
What is the internet if not a modern panopticon? But it is a two-sided one, a panopticon that can be turned around.
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In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)
A twenty-first-century pilgrim ends a year-long journey where the seventeenth-century Pilgrims ended theirs—on the coast of New England, not far from where his travels began
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In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
From the storm systems of Florida to those of Washington, D. C.
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In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three)
Death row and a brothel in Las Vegas; a pilot's lecture on creationism; genealogy and the Mormons; higher learning in Austin; a gun show in Fort Worth; and the rain-struck opening of the Clinton Library
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Road Trip: Part II
What would Tocqueville say? A journey continues, from Seattle to San Diego via Alcatraz and an obesity clinic
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In the Footsteps of Tocqueville
How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. We asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found
