What The Economist’s John Prideaux Learned From A Road Trip Across The U.S.

Looking For Tocqueville’s America Prideaux’s encounter at the prison was just one stop on a trek that follows Tocqueville’s route through a very different America. MORE FOR YOU Beginning in New York City, Prideaux’s reporting in Tocqueville Road Trip takes him everywhere from a sprawling data center under construction to Harvard University, a county jail holding ICE detainees, the corridors of power in the nation’s capital, and Palm Beach — the South Florida community that’s become synonymous with President Trump’s MAGA political movement. Tocqueville famously observed that, while America’s political system looked chaotic and unruly on the surface, he saw…