Revolutions

Volume VII, Number 2 | spring 2014

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The Nation Is in Danger, or the Enrollment of Volunteers at the Place du Palais-Royal in July 1792, by Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, 1832.

Preamble

Crowd Control

By Lewis H. Lapham

No country can preserve its political liberties unless its rulers know that their people preserve the spirit of resistance.

Essay

No Smoke for Camilo

By Garret Keizer

Can one be a Christian and a revolutionary? Consider the case of Camilo Torres Restrepo, and the meaning of liberation theology.

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Political Revolutions

Uprisings and revolts across the globe.

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Miscellany

Lamoignon de Malesherbes chose to defend Louis XVI during his trial of 1792 and 1793; years earlier, as secretary of state, Malesherbes had reported on the corruption in the king’s administration and condemned the imprisonment of French citizens without trial. Both the king and the lawyer were eventually guillotined. “No one is ignorant of the fact that M. de M, after defending the people before King Louis XVI, defended King Louis XVI before the people. I have not forgotten and will never forget these two exemplary actions,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, who was Malesherbes’ great-grandson.