Karl Marx was a philosopher and revolutionary who, with Friedrich Engels, wrote "The Communist Manifesto," a pamphlet that provided a platform for the European socialist and communist parties during ...

Young intellectuals smoking cigars, playing chess and trading philosophical barbs between moves in the mid-19th century may not seem like the makings of compelling cinema. But when situated in a ...

There's a basic principle of free speech that the censors always seem to forget. Namely, the act of suppressing speech only tends to add more fuel to the speaker's fire. Don't believe me? Just ask ...

During the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, the royal and military aristocracy prohibited the first popularly elected parliament from assembling, and that parliament responded by declaring ...