Until recently, the question of the origins of fascist ideology seemed a fairly academic affair. Not only have the events of World War II receded in historical memory, but the collapse of communism made it appear that the “age of …
There are many who will view Tony Judt’s Past Imperfect as a rearguard action. After all, the moral condemnation of French intellectuals for their utter credulity about communism in the late 1940s and the early 1950s is about as challenging …
James Miller has provided us with a luminously intelligent biography of Michel Foucault. Miller, a former book and music critic for Newsweek and the author of an outstanding history of Students for a Democratic Society in its predogmatic phase (“Democracy …
Since the appearance of François Furet’s Penser la Revolution Française in 1978, conventional wisdom concerning the French Revolution has fallen upon hard times. For quite some time such “conventional wisdom” has been left wing. In the nineteenth century the Revolution …
