Crowds have a bad reputation.
Watching the crowds at Bastille, French thinker Gustave Le Bon cast their ... But hostility to the mob is often hostility to democracy, the book says. The 19th century was haunted by the spectre ...
India is marking its 76th Republic Day today (). This year’s celebrations are extra special as the Constitution, which came into effect on this day in 1950, marks 75 years. As we observe this day with ...
A classical novel in which Dickens depicts as flawlessly as possible the lowest, meanest and worst of the populace during the revolution. | Berbasis di ...
Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a ...
Season two featured a scene where Claire Fraser (played by Caitríona Balfe) slept with King Louis XV (Lionel Lingelser) in order to gain a pardon for her husband Jamie Fraser's (Sam Heughan) illegal ...
By Alida Becker Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. In “The Killing Fields ...
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
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