The War in Court, Inside the Long Fight Against Torture by Lisa Hajar is out now from University of California Press. The book traces the fight against US torture policy by lawyers who brought the war on terror into courts. Daniel Denver: Grakis Babuf was the French Revolution's most famous ultra radical. He and his compatriots had been captured while hatching their conspiracy of equals. Their quixotic plan was to overturn the centrist order that had governed since Thermador overthrew Robespierre's terror.
Featuring Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf's call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspiracy against the Directory government, and the end of the French Revolution. How a centrist government turned its back on popular democracy, presided over growing inequality and working-class poverty, and abetted the rise of the reactionary right that would ultimately overthrow it.
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