Early on in the French Revolution, in his memoir on press
freedom submitted to the Estates-General in June 1789, Jean-Pierre
Brissot (1754–93), later a prominent revolutionary leader,
proclaimed liberty of the press “un droit naturel à
l’homme.”...
Does war have a time? The idea of “wartime” is
regularly invoked by scholars and policymakers, but the temporal
element in warfare is rarely directly examined. I came to the
Institute in 2007–08 intent on exploring the history of
war’s impact on...
