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As a rule, Andrew Roberts explains (in Napoleon: A Life), the educated, professional and secularized elites were more likely to regard Napoleon as a liberating force than the Catholic peasantry, ...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/05/bloodletting-is-among-the-ingredients-of-political-medicine/

Prestigious universities encourage students to nurture their grievances, Rob Henderson explains (in Troubled), giving rise to a peculiar situation in which the most advantaged are the most well-e...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/05/educate-yourself/

Even before the Directory had received the news of Napoleon’s victory at Lodi, Andrew Roberts explains (in Napoleon: A Life), they conceived a plan to try to force him to share the glory of the...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/05/it-would-be-better-to-have-one-bad-general-than-to-have-two-good-ones/

Before his first year of college, Rob Henderson had never even been to a musical, he explains (in Troubled): No one I knew from Red Bluff had ever been to one. But it seemed like everyone on camp...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/05/once-a-piece-of-art-becomes-mainstream-elites-must-distance-themselves-from-it/

Gradually, Rob Henderson developed the concept of “luxury beliefs,” he explains (in Troubled), which are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class at very little cost, while of...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/the-poor-reap-what-the-luxury-belief-class-sows-2/

Rob Henderson arrived at Yale nervous about the possibility of being intellectually limited compared with his peers on campus, he explains (in Troubled), because of his impoverished background an...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/words-like-trauma-meant-something-different-for-them/

The Directory gave Napoleon the best wedding present he could ever have hoped for, Andrew Roberts explains (in Napoleon: A Life), command of the Army of Italy: In the nine days between receiving ...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/he-read-biographies-of-commanders-who-had-fought-there-and-had-the-courage-to-admit-his-ignorance-when-he-didnt-know-something/

Napoleon’s (first) wife Josephine was born in Martinique on June 23, 1763, Andrew Roberts notes (in Napoleon: A Life), although in later life she claimed that it was 1767: She arrived in Paris ...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/no-one-ever-managed-so-brilliantly-without-it/

When Rob Henderson got to Yale, he explains (in Troubled), he helped a female senior with some boxes: We entered her room, and I set the boxes down. She opened the larger box and pulled out a lar...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/the-medication-rattled-as-she-set-it-on-her-desk/

Alexis de Tocqueville would write that states are never more vulnerable than when they attempt to reform themselves, Andrew Roberts notes (in Napoleon: A Life), and that was certainly true of Fra...

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/03/states-are-never-more-vulnerable-than-when-they-attempt-to-reform-themselves/