Tocqueville's Reflective Patriotism and Its Lessons for American Civils at Our Semiquincentennial

Paul Carrese is a professor in the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, serving as founding director 2016-2023. He earlier taught at Middlebury College and at the U.S. Air Force Academy, co-founding the Academy’s honors program blending liberal arts and leadership education. He teaches and publishes on American constitutional and political thought, civic education, and American grand strategy. His most recent book is Democracy in Moderation: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism (2016). He has held fellowships at Oxford (Rhodes Scholar); Harvard; University of Delhi (Fulbright fellow); and the James Madison Program, Princeton. He served on the advisory board of the Program on Public Discourse at UNC Chapel Hill; co-led a national study, Educating for American Democracy, on K-12 history and civics education (2021); is a fellow of the Civitas Institute, UT Austin; and is a senior fellow of the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History.