On July 16, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened a ministerial conference on the resurgence of political terrorism in Washington. The resurgence of political terrorism is a shared threat across the transatlantic community, one that has afflicted the United States alongside its European and Latin American partners. July 17 marks the anniversaries of two of the most chilling acts of revolutionary violence in modern history: The execution of the 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne during the French Revolution in 1794, and the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family during the Russian Revolution in 1918. This helps explain why revolutionary movements, though masked in different rhetoric across the centuries, often produce remarkably similar outcomes. The civilisations that have endured did so not through revolution, but through faith, family, virtue, memory and the patient work of renewal.