In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, ...

Two centuries ago, in the midst of another “war on terror”—or so he thought of it—Edmund Burke rebuked his prime minister for a similar failing. He had admired William Pitt for his leadership in the ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Robespierre is not an easy man to like. Prudish and prickly, the anonymous ...

THE AGE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION: THE STRUGGLE by R. R. Palmer. 584 pages. Princeton. $10. Ever since the French Revolution of ficially ended in 1794, historians have asked whether it enlarged or ...

A pair of researchers who gave the French revolutionary Robespierre a disputed 3D makeover raised the possibility Friday that the man best known for unleashing the ...