Features
Terrorism, restlessness, and Bastille Day
The tantalizing lie of revolution is the idea that heaven-on-earth sits right around the corner, provided some hated class can be overthrown and then purged […]
French Revolution
Features
Cardinal Sarah, “terrorism of thought,” and the fight for faith
In certain key respects the struggle between predominantly urban revolutionaries and predominantly rural Christians during French Revolution foreshadows the Blue-Red divide of our own time […]
The Dispatch
Secularists erase Christianity from European history
Looking at things from this side of the Atlantic, it is easy to think of Europe as a single, united entity. Seen up close it’s not so clear. National identity keeps getting in the way. […]