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www.palladiummag.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] The article discusses the life and legacy of Abbé Gregoire, a key figure in the French Revolution, emphasizing his role in the regeneration of society through republican institutions. It traces his influence on global movements, including the abolition of slavery, the rise of republics in Latin America, and the adaptation of regeneration ideology in Asia and Zionism. The piece highlights how the Revolution's structural logic, rather than its Enlightenment ideals, became the foundation for modern state-building and national identity formation worldwide, despite the collapse of the Enlightenment's original cultural conditions. | |
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mattlakeman.org
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| | | | | Having finished the epic, all-encompassing biographical 33-hour audiobook,Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts,I knew I wanted to write something about it, but I wasn't sure what. Napoleon Bonaparte had one of the most accomplished, divisive,big lives of any person in history, which reshaped the way we think about war, politics, revolution, culture, law, religion, and... | |
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crimethinc.com
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| | | | | Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us. | |
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fakegeekboy.wordpress.com
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| | | I haven't done a horror blitz for Halloween this year - been too busy with other projects - but that hasn't stopped me taking in some horror movies. November, that horrid dead zone between Halloween and Christmas, is to my mind a gloomier time of year than Halloween proper anyway, so what better way to... | ||
