The election of 1800 featured many of the same elements of our politics today.
Tag: French Revolution
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Remembering Klemens von Metternich
Metternich orchestrated a European balance of power, which ensured nearly a century of peace and flourishing, but he failed to deal with the forces of nationalism and liberalism.
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Remembering Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke warned that the state seeking to re-order society tends to destroy the natural associations that alone make people decent citizens.
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Three Conceptions of Conservatism
Editor-in-chief Paul Gottfried offers an examination of three major streams of conservative thought, based on aristocratic tradition, universal principles, and the pragmatic pursuit of power.
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Polemics & Exchanges: December 2023
Chronicles readers discuss and critique recent articles on the U.S. dollar, immigration, and "therapism."
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Inherited Traditions Are More Credible Than Natural Rights
Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried explains why the moral and legal foundations of America are found in religion and custom, not Enlightenment natural rights, which can be interpreted ever-leftward and lead to intolerance and aggression.
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Equality’s Rising Flood
The obsession with equality or "equity," transgenderism, racial politics and the rest of Western social wreckage since the 1950s was foreshadowed by the events of the French Revolution.
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The Revolution and Modern France
The myth of the French Revolution inherently perpetuates an emotional, moral, and intellectual schism within a great nation. It has been poisoning the bonds among members of the French polity for over two centuries.
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Three Classic Critics of the Revolution: A Bastille-Day Meditation (Part II)
Edmund Burke was not the only great early critic of the French Revolution. De Maistre and Taine also developed strong, distinct criticisms of the revolutionaries in the period immediately following the Terror.
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Reign of Terror: A Bastille-Day Meditation
On the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, an accounting of the sadistic Reign of Terror is in order.
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History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes
There are remarkable parallels between French society just before the French Revolution and U.S. society now, as a rereading of Thomas Carlyle's work shows. "The Jacobins are buried; but their work is not."