How did the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of t

We now live with the threat and the reality of political terror and terrorists. The French Revolution was the first occasion when a democratic government used t

Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associa

For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an orgy of appare

The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, li