French Revolution

Commentary Revolutionaries often don’t know when to stop. In France of the 1790s, radicals, not content with creating a constitutional monarchy, abolishing feudalism, and establishing a bill of rights, attempted ...

From Luciano Pavarotti to Jonas Kaufmann, talented tenors have vied to interpret the much beloved role of André ...

The Sun King, Louis XIV (1638–1715) launched haute couture, the business of fashion. It was a brilliant move. ...

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“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.” The man who ...

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In this special series, we explore the roots of the communist movement and its system of socialism, and ...

Commentary The end of this battle will determine our fate and that of our children and the future ...

Commentary “That’s insane!” These days, how often do we say those words? The litany could go on and ...

Every so often something happens in human history that has massive repercussions, implications and effects out of all ...

Commentary The journalist Gavin Haynes has a great phrase for a familiar and disturbing phenomenon: the purity spiral. ...

Commentary We have arrived at a state of near-anarchy in the formerly United States of America, now disunited ...

Commentary In previous articles, I’ve explained how we can achieve a better understanding of left and right. In ...

Commentary We live in an era of pessimism and nihilism, when hope and purpose have been stripped from ...

Some of Madame Tussaud's first models were the severed heads left by the guillotine of the French Revolution.