Policymakers managed to avert another depression but, once they did so, their mission seemed complete and their hands were ...

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ...

The story begins in France, in the summer of 1789, explains Patrice Higonnet, a professor emeritus of French history at ...

How has the idea of revolution changed? A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept. The storming of the Bastille. Here’s a puzzle: Must revolution always ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints. It was a rare decision, in that no one in the Church disagreed with it. In order to understand why the decision ...

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ...

Mel Brooks and Pamela Stephenson in a scene from the movie History of the World: Part I. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...