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Universities pay historians to research, understand, and explain revolutions in order to help us comprehend our present circumstances. Most social upheavals—such as the 1789 French Revolution and the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power—are top-down. Revolutionary regimes always count on the servile obedience of their subjects.

Universities pay historians to research, understand, and explain revolutions in order to help us comprehend our present circumstances. Most social upheavals—such as the 1789 French Revolution and the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power—are top-down. Revolutionary regimes always count on the servile obedience of their subjects.

Fr. Joseph Illo of San Francisco is a public menace. This blog post contains so much misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, you would think h...

Learning the Ten Commandments is one of the first things we were taught about the moral life as children. They were not exactly easy to unders...

A fascinating look at an alternative 'economic strategy' in US mining communities during the 1930s Depression.

(Image: Gorkie/Private Media) Our dossier of Scott Morrison’s lies and falsehoods certainly created quite the buzz last week, garnering attention across the country, from citizens, pollies, celebs, you name it. And the feedback from Crikey readers came in droves… On the dossier Dr Robbie Lloyd writes: This series is long overdue and desperately needed. Thank you for having the guts to go for the heart of Australia’s current malaise in public life — i.e. being led by a shallow con man, ...

-- Each week we’ll run through the sublime, the trivial and profound issues, decisions and goings on that strike us as Hits or Misses. you can join in, too, by emailing your Hits & Misses to editboard@theunion.com. MISS (from reader George Carter): To U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa and his office staff. I phoned his Chico office asking that the representative join the effort to impeach the president. I spoke in particular of the president’s Jan. 6 speech egging on the mob and directing them to cont...

Each week we’ll run through the sublime, the trivial and profound issues, decisions and goings on that strike us as Hits or Misses. you can join in, too, by emailing your Hits & Misses to editboard@theunion.com. MISS (from reader Philip S. Reinheimer): To Mitch McConnell’s block of a $2,000 relief payment to taxpayers in need, instead of the current $600. He rightly deserves the designation of “Mortician’s Mistake Mitch!” Thankfully, we’re about ready to enter the decade of the Demo...

In 2021, are we going to continue believing the worst of every one we encounter online? Blogger Amanda Knapp (“Indisposable Mama”) writes that Catholics can lead a different way.