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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July 26, 2022July 26, 2022Web
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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July 15, 2022July 15, 2022Web
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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July 14, 2022July 14, 2022Web
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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May 23, 2022June 17, 2022Web
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."