• Why Attitudes Toward the Ultra-Wealthy Inspired by the French Revolution Are Nonsensical

    Why Attitudes Toward the Ultra-Wealthy Inspired by the French Revolution Are Nonsensical

    People want to hang Musk and Bezos because they are affluent. However, closer study reveals that this is not the case.
  • What Is the Cause of the French Revolution?

    What Is the Cause of the French Revolution?

    If only the French elites had decided on a similar course of reform, there would have been no Terror, no Napoleon, and no centralizing, state revolution.
  • 4 bloody and terrible French Revolution Trends That Have Started In The United States

    4 bloody and terrible French Revolution Trends That Have Started In The United States

    The bloody and terrible French Revolution featured attacks on religion, rewriting history, toppling statues, and abandoning tradition. Sound familiar? Many recently celebrated Bastille Day, the day French radical revolutionaries stormed a prison, released its prisoners, and brutally murdered the warden. That fateful day, now more than 200 years ago, set in motion a revolution that …
  • Happy Bastille Day: What the French Revolution Means for Liberty

    Happy Bastille Day: What the French Revolution Means for Liberty

    Today the French celebrate the 231th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, the date usually recognized as the beginning of the French Revolution. What should libertarians (or classical liberals) think of the French Revolution? The Chinese premier Zhou Enlai is famously (but apparently inaccurately) quoted as saying, “It is too soon to tell.” I like to draw on …