John Prideaux

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643 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Tocqueville Road Trip: 2. Against all obstacles · 13 Jun 2026 podcast

They took a steamboat to Albany, the state capital. matched

They were there on the fourth of July. matched

New York's governor invited them to join the official parade. matched

Veterans of George Washington's army rode in carriages ahead of them. matched

It ended at a church where a young man read out the Declaration of Independence. matched

This was where Tocville first bore witness to Americans' attachment to their democracy as a kind of faith. matched

It was a belief, in his words, deeply felt. matched

Is that faith still there? matched

After talking to the money delete in New York and prisoners at Sing Sing, matched

I needed to find someone in Middle America, someone who is experiencing American democracy in its most quintessential form. matched

and Tocqueville can guide me there. matched

Leaving the Hudson Valley, he and Beaumore turned west towards Buffalo, the gateway to the Great Lakes. matched

At the frontier, that most American place, Tocqueville wanted to see the democratic experiment playing out away from social hierarchy and tradition. matched

He would see that this is a land of opportunity for anyone with the drive to find it. matched

This part of the journey is a little bit trickier to replicate. matched

There's not exactly a vast wilderness north of Detroit. matched

So I'm following him to a modern frontier, still in Michigan. matched

But it's not a physical frontier. matched

It's a technological one. matched

In the rest of this series, I'll see the front line of the battle for freedom of expression in Boston. matched

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