The Kingdom of Hungary
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Today, we tackle a subject about which I must admit my total ignorance about until I began this series on the Revolutions of 1848, the Kingdom of Hungary. Now, I have plenty of natural background in most of European and American history and have now spent years moving slowly and […]
Risorgimento
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Last week, we covered the breadth and depth of the Austrian Empire. And as I said, there would be two subsets of the Austrian Empire that would demand much fuller treatment, Italy and Hungary. So this week, we will cover Italy, and then next week, the Kingdom of Hungary, and […]
The Austrian Empire
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. At some point in the 1020s, a Radbot of Klettgau built a castle near the Aare River in the Duchy of Swabia, today a part of northern Switzerland. And oh yeah, before we go on, this is my obligatory notice that I’ll be butchering a lot of German in this […]
The German Confederation
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. In 1848, Germany did not exist on any map in Europe. It only existed in the minds of a handful of idealists, dreamers, romantics, and political reformers, whose imaginations had been swept away by the tidal wave of the French Revolution and Napoleon’s conquest of Europe, but who were then […]
Order and Liberty
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. On July 28, 1831, a suitably solemn but enthusiastic ceremony was held in the Place de la of Bastille. In the wake of the July Revolution, the new government of Louis Philippe worked overtime to cement the official story that the Three Glorious Days had been about the people of […]
The Volcano
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Welcome back to our now seventh Revolution together, seven!, this time, the great revolutionary year of 1848, also known as “the turning point that did not turn”. … Now let’s turn our attention to the Revolutions of 1848. On January the 29th, 1848, Alexi De Tocqueville, member of the French […]
The State of the Union – Gore Vidal
If there were awards for making predictions about the future, Gore Vidal would win the gold! Please note the date of these comments: May 1, 1975 !! Full article: https://classic.esquire.com/article/1975/5/1/the-state-of-the-union According to the polls, our second principal concern today is the breakdown of law and order. Now, to the right wing, law and order is […]
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Hi, I love me some realpolitik and I hope you do too 🙂 Let’s walk through Mearsheimer’s The Tragedy of Great Power Politics: 1. Introduction Indeed, there is much evidence that the promise of everlasting peace among the great powers was stillborn. Consider, for example, that even though the Soviet threat has disappeared, the United […]
Force Alone Maintained Him, Force Alone Overthrows Him
Where are my Rousseau fans at? From Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (1755): “the despot is master only as long as he is the stronger, and that as soon as he can be expelled, he cannot complain about the violence. The uprising that ends with the sultan being strangled or dethroned is as lawful an act as […]
This is Elon Musk!
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the world’s richest man: On Monday, January 20, 2025, Elon Musk appeared on stage at the Capital One Arena in Washington D.C., where supporters of the newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump had gathered for a rally. And this happened: A very deliberate and perfectly timed Sieg Heil! Three […]