Reagan on College Tuition
There’s a reason that U.S. college tuition is so expensive: to control the population! That’s not a fringe opinion. In fact, I’m summarizing Ronald Regan’s strategy for controlling college student protests during the 1960’s. Let’s start with a July 1969 FBI memo from J. Edgar Hoover’s third in command, Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, to his second in command […]
The June Rebellion
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. “Of what is revolt composed? Of Nothing and of everything, of an electricity disengaged little by little, of a flame suddenly darting forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions which burn, wretchedness which howls, and […]
The Carbonari
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. So, last time we did some big picture anti-revolutionary surveying through the eyes of Austrian foreign minister, Metterneesh? Metternish? Metternich? However, you want me to say it, I’m not doing it right, and I apologize for all of you who yelled at me about it. Got a bunch more German coming […]
Metternich
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. So now that we’ve spent a lot of time minutely focused on events in and around 1830, I want to pull back and do a broader survey of European international relations in the years after Napoleon’s fall to provide some much-needed context for what is to come in 1848. And […]
The Belgian Revolution
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. So we wrapped up last week with a brief discussion of how the rest of Europe reacted to the July Revolution in France. As we saw, the other great powers, Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, were none too happy about the abrupt regime change in Paris. But by September of […]
The Fait Accompli of 1830
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. So last week, we wrapped up the official narrative of the Revolution of 1830. And as I said, we’re now going to take the next few weeks to discuss some adjacent revolutionary topics that pop up in the era between the fall of Napoleon in 1815 and the great year […]
The Last King of France
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Okay, so we have come now finally to our final episode on the Revolution of 1830. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. And as you know, it’s all about the great sweeping arcs of history around here, so getting to do an hour-by-hour account of a […]
The Duc d’Orléans
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. So a funny thing happened on the way to the final episode of this series on the Revolution of 1830. I am locked in the final edits for my book, The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic, forthcoming from Public Affairs fall 2017. […]
The Barricades
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. As we saw last time, the July Revolution got going in earnest on Tuesday, July 27, 1830. An attempt by King Charles X to shut down presses had triggered resistance from the liberal opposition and violent unrest in the streets of Paris. But as we also saw last time, the […]
Stop The Presses
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Following the elections of June and July 1830, King Charles X was completely over it. Over what? It. All of it. Everything. He had just used every dirty trick he could think of to defeat the liberal opposition. And for his effort, the ultra royalist actually lost seats in the […]