The (French) revolutionary conscience
In France in 1792-94 your 'political identity' decided whether you lived or died
This is Who made our minds? my Thursday essay probing the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years, inspired by my book, The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin 2024). Coming up: Edmund Burke v Thomas Paine, The Totalitarian Mind, God’s Capitalists
AN EXTRAORDINARY idea animated the leaders of the French Revolution (178…
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