Alexis de Tocqueville and America

Burgiss Theater, Trone Student Center

Walters Memorial Lecture Series   “So I did not study America just to satisfy curiosity . . . I sought there lessons from which we might profit” (Democracy in America, Vol 1, Introduction).   Mark Lilla (Columbia University) Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Before moving to Columbia in 2007, he taught […]