Commentary Revolutionaries often don’t know when to stop. In France of the 1790s, radicals, not content with creating a constitutional monarchy, abolishing feudalism, and establishing a bill of rights, attempted to create a whole new kind of human–utterly rational, uprooted from old loyalties and places, fitted to be a citizen of a new kind of…

From Luciano Pavarotti to Jonas Kaufmann, talented tenors have vied to interpret the much beloved role of André Chénier—the French poet of the revolutionary generation, memorialized in the musical repertoire by Umberto Giordano’s popular 1896 opera. With a succession of passionate arias, the composer charts the tragic story of the talented poet, whose life was…

The Sun King, Louis XIV (1643–1715) launched haute couture, the business of fashion. It was a brilliant move. He made personal appearance important for social interaction. At court, the king himself was impeccably dressed, and he required the same of his courtiers. Clothing had to fit perfectly, be made with beautiful fabrics, and be impeccably…

“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.” The man who spoke those words was one of history’s premiere authorities on the subject. He was a monster himself, made so by the toxin we call “power.” On July 28, 1794, he and a famous cohort departed this earth…

Commentary After winning the independence they had declared in 1776, Americans had to prove that they could sustain self-government in peace. They’d governed themselves already, as colonists, but now the British government no longer protected them from the other European powers, and indeed remained a potential enemy of the new country. It’s easy for us…

Commentary The end of this battle will determine our fate and that of our children and the future of the entire world. The United States is known as a land of the free. The American character is rooted in independence and thought belief in daily life. However, the foundations of the American character are now…

The communist system first gained ground during the French Revolution, and was carried on through various systems by François-Noël “Gracchus” Babeuf, who is considered the first revolutionary communist. We look into Babeuf’s “Conspiracy of Equals,” and the environment from which his beliefs emerged. Follow EpochTV on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus

Commentary “That’s insane!” These days, how often do we say those words? The litany could go on and on. Dr. Seuss is suddenly persona non grata, six of his books removed from publication because they are “racist” and “hateful.” That’s insane! Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has become a widely reviled personality because she claims…