{"id":42711,"date":"2026-07-16T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42711"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:37:51","slug":"npr-correspondent-eleanor-beardsley-featured-on-tocqueville-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/npr-correspondent-eleanor-beardsley-featured-on-tocqueville-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR correspondent Eleanor Beardsley &#8217;86 featured on &#8216;Tocqueville Talks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alum and NPR Paris Correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/17796129\/eleanor-beardsley\">Eleanor Beardsley<\/a> &#8217;86 H&#8217;19 joined Furman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> on podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/25-is-the-postwar-order-ending-europe-trump-ukraine\/id1862880152?i=1000773275278\">&#8220;Tocqueville Talks.&#8221;<\/a> The conversation included how the European history and French alum &#8220;followed what she loved&#8221; navigating a career that spanned a number of roles including working in the U.S. Congress, producing for a D.C.-based French TV news organization, and freelance journalism that took her to Kosovo in 1999 and the former Yugoslavia, and Tunisia for the uprising in 2011, among many other assignments. More recently, she has reported on the conflict in Israel, the earthquake in Morocco, and the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In the podcast, Nelsen poses these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do Europeans view the second Trump administration?<\/li>\n<li>Can Europe defend itself?<\/li>\n<li>What role do right-wing parties play in European politics?<\/li>\n<li>Will the European Union emerge stronger\u2014or more divided?<\/li>\n<li>And are we witnessing the collapse of the postwar order that shaped the West for generations?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nelsen is the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/politics-international-affairs\/\">Politics and International Affairs<\/a> and the director of Furman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/\">Tocqueville Center<\/a> for the Study of Democracy and Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alum Eleanor Beardsley &#8220;followed what she loved,&#8221; eventually moving to Paris to cover French society, politics, economics, culture and more. She spoke with Brent Nelsen on podcast &#8220;Tocqueville Talks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,6,16,3541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-tocqueville-talks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42717,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42711\/revisions\/42717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}