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Voices In Time

1848 | London

The Bourgeois Revolution

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.More

Voices In Time

1582 | Rome

Getting It Right

Pope Gregory XIII sets the date.More

Voices In Time

1517 | Wittenberg

Questioning the Pope

Martin Luther lodges a complaint.More

Voices In Time

1923 | Moscow

Language Police

Trotsky takes on swearing.More

Voices In Time

1840 | Paris

Property Is Robbery

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon reveals the truth.More

Voices In Time

1900 | Paris

The New Moral Force

Henry Adams before the dynamo.More

Voices In Time

c. 30 | Jerusalem

Turning the Tables

Jesus lays down the law.More

Voices In Time

1790 | London

False Lights

Edmund Burke surveys the fresh ruins of France.More

Voices In Time

1826 | Lima

Of All Human Rewards

Simón Bolívar sends a thank-you note.More

Voices In Time

1919 | Washington, DC

Clear and Present Danger

A. Mitchell Palmer goes hunting for Bolsheviks.More

Voices In Time

1869 | Geneva

Job Requirements

The revolutionist is a person doomed.More

Voices In Time

72 BC | Italy

His Name Was Spartacus

Plutarch on the insurrection of the gladiators.More

Voices In Time

c. 330 BC | Athens

The Reasons Why

Aristotle explains a revolution.More

Voices In Time

1914 | Philadelphia

Premeditated Discords

“If you were to sit on the keyboard, you would produce as much harmony as Schoenberg’s music possesses.”More

Voices In Time

1776 | New England

All Men Would Be Tyrants if They Could

John and Abigail Adams compare notes on the American Revolution.More

Voices In Time

c. 1850 | New England

Getting on the Train

Nathaniel Hawthorne blows some smoke.More

Voices In Time

c. 1945 | China

Out of the Barrel of a Gun

The world according to Chairman Mao.More

Voices In Time

1848 | Normandy

The Impulse to Preserve

John Ruskin defends those that cannot defend themselves.More

Voices In Time

1685 | London

So Many False Arguments

The Duke of Monmouth ain’t too proud to beg.More

Voices In Time

1543 | Nuremburg

A Modest Proposal

Nicolaus Copernicus rearranges the heavens. More

Voices In Time

c. 460 BC | Athens

Putting Down the Revolt

Zeus makes Prometheus pay the price.More

Voices In Time

1823 | Greece

Volunteering His Services

Lord Byron assists in Greece.More

Voices In Time

1976 | Paris

Class Notes

Julio Cortázar considers politics vs. literature.More

Voices In Time

1938 | Paris

Demystifying the Magic Word

Simone Weil’s reflections on revolution.More

Voices In Time

1787 | Paris

The Tree of Liberty

Thomas Jefferson tends the garden of revolution.More

Voices In Time

1921 | West Orange, NJ

Missed Opportunity

For Thomas Edison, education before entertainment.More

Voices In Time

c. 1930 | Tunis

The Coming Storm

To the tyrants of the world.More

Voices In Time

1937 | Berlin

Adolf Hitler Writes History

“Each racial species must preserve the purity of the blood that God has given it.”More

Voices In Time

1792 | Saint-Domingue

Nonnegotiable Demands

Toussaint Louverture resolves to live free or die.More

Voices In Time

1775 | London

Nursed with Great Tenderness

King George III refuses to let go.More

Voices In Time

1667 | London

Attack Plans

Moloch calls for an open war on heaven.More

Voices In Time

1718 | London

Anni Mirabiles

Isaac Newton’s wonder years.More

Voices In Time

1620 | London

The Scientific Method

Francis Bacon’s inductive reasoning.More

Voices In Time

491 BC | Rome

A Body Divided Cannot Walk

Shakespeare dissects the body politic.More

Voices In Time

1793 | Paris

Public-Works Project

Jacques-Louis David designs by committee.More

Voices In Time

1860 | London

Hit Piece

Darwin’s dishonoring of nature.More

Voices In Time

1910 | New York City

Making a Distinction

Emma Goldman uncouples love from marriage.More

Voices In Time

1920 | Vienna

Unholy Trinity

Sigmund Freud sits humanity on the couch.More

Voices In Time

1841 | Concord, MA

All Things Renew

Ralph Waldo Emerson on the transience of all things.More

Voices In Time

1916 | London

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

W.B. Yeats on the Irish question.More

Voices In Time

1686 | Netherlands

The Best Fence Against Rebellion

John Locke finds power in the people.More

Voices In Time

1860 | Columbia, SC

No Common Bond

South Carolina dissolves the Union.More

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