Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attend the 125th Army-Navy football ...

In 2008, the French critic Lucien Jaume published an interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that won a prize from the Académie Française. An English version by the eminent translator Arthur ...

On Heirs & Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy, by Eleanor Doughty. The House of Lords would then comprise about 740 life peers, created by recent prime ministers. Life peerages were ...

This election, a fight between a political outsider and the established elite political class, will decide if “we the people” will bring an end to the aristocracy of the privileged few. Recently the ...

Dominic Raab, until recently deputy prime minister and supposedly the second man in power in the U.K. after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, had to resign, after a parliamentary report about him being a ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

One of my best friends who I am committed to meet fortnightly for our mutual discussions and conversations on national and international matters asked me an interesting question during our last ...

Yale Law professor Amy Chua cruised to wide attention several years ago for a supposedly satirical book about shaping her kids into child prodigies with brutal hazing. She recently wrote another book ...

“The uttered part of a man’s life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.”— Carlyle’s Essay on Scott ...