Baker, an experienced historian on Early Modern Europe and J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, aims to 'make sense of those 'sublime words of the prophet-Marat,' the radical journalist and martyred deputy who notorious calls for blood gave voice to some of the most frightful impulses of the French Revolution.'
The script is a work of art, about the sovereign citizen movement, which like any other conspiracy theory is based on the extreme edge of American thought. It made me think of the 6 January attack on the US Capitol; what drives normal working class Americans to make these life choices? I'm counting on the UK to celebrate this film, because I think it's a little too smart for the American audience, frankly. A more European sensibility is going to respond more powerfully than an American one.
The race to define what the brutal murder of right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk last week means and why it happened has led a lot of people to say a lot of things. Some of those things, like blaming the sci-fi shooter Halo for fomenting class warfare, or suggesting the alleged shooter was radicalized by the "meme-ification" of the internet, look increasingly like absurd, knee-jerk, and ill-informed reactions,