How Much Equality Can Freedom Bear?

Illustration of the balance between equality and freedom and the distinction between equality before the law and equality of outcome.

In the winter of 1854, in the archives of a French province, a forty-eight-year-old man asks for old files to be brought up. His chest is ill, he works slowly, and he is looking for a date. His name is Alexis de Tocqueville, and he wants to find the exact year in which the Revolution […]