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 […]
Help Yourself And Heaven Will Help You
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. So last time we covered the first five years of the reign of King Charles X of France. Finally free of Louis XVIII’s annoying centrism, Charles went into his reign believing that he would be able to pursue an ultra royalist agenda with impunity. Now this seemed like an okay […]
Charles The Simple
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. So last time we did a quick run through the first decade of the Bourbon restoration, covering the reign of Louis XVIII. Today we’ll pick up with the ascension of Louis’ little brother, the reactionary ultra royalist Charles X, and then burn through the first five years of his reign […]
The Chain of Time
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Welcome back to the show as we now embark on our sixth revolution together, this time, the July Revolution of 1830. And as I said, this run will be far more compact than the sprawling epics that we’ve gotten up to lately. So what we’re looking at here is a […]
Berle on The Modern Corporation
Adolf Berle was an American lawyer, educator, writer, and diplomat. He was the author of The Modern Corporation and Private Property, a groundbreaking work on corporate governance, a professor at Columbia University, and an important member of US President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust.” Berle always gave us the truth, as exemplified on his 1951 memo where he remarked that controlling […]