In this debate, McPhee's softly stated preference is to see the revolution -- and, by extension, Robespierre -- as an enduring model for all those who yearn for civic republicanism. To this effect, ...

ROBESPIERRE, one of the great typical ... Such men may be greater than their phrases or their vain acts display them. I know that he passed through a furnace of which our paltry time can re ...

In “What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns?” (Declarations, July 27), Peggy Noonan draws an astute analogy between the radical purists of the French Revolution and our increasingly strident left ...