The End of the Terror

By David A. Bell New York Review of Books Colin Jones gives an hour-by-hour account of the Ninth of Thermidor, a day that marked a turning point in the French Revolution. Imagine a government divided between two ferociously opposed political forces, both of which claim the right to […]

Another All-Time Media Faceplant

By Matt Taibbi After the Biden administration and the press wrongly predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th, they kept compounding the error in spectacular fashion. If cluelessness can be art, American journalists unveiled their Sistine Chapel this week, in a remarkable collection of misreports and […]