As Simon Hall shows in his lively, insightful but disjointed study of how revolutions shaped the 20st century, however, Lenin ...

In a way that seems almost self-exemplifying, the idea provided a new way of looking at science itself: not as one thing, but ...

In our September 2025 issue, astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field of planetary science has transformed during his decades-long career. From the discovery of ...

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present,” by Fareed Zakaria, and “The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It,” by Nathan ...

The Revolutions of 1848 were shocking but hardly unexpected. Hunger lashed the mid-1840s with a doubly deadly grain and potato crisis (Clark’s ancestors were among the many thousands who fled ...

All of these revolutions in 1848 were far better organized and led revolutions than the grand-daddy of them all, the 1789 French Revolution. No one expected a revolution in 1789.

In Egypt and Tunisia, the dictators are gone — but much of the previous systems remain. What comes next is far from clear. The protesters who overthrew the governments have little political ...

Words “are witnesses which often speak louder than documents”, wrote Eric Hobsbawm in “The Age of Revolution 1789-1848”. And in an age of Arab revolutions (2010- ), words have become ...