Explore the Republican war on history, where right-wing narratives clash with the empirical Enlightenment-based history. Liberalism is rooted in this notion of the Enlightenment, the idea that we can ...

I am skeptical about “The Enlightenment.” It is an ideologically loaded term that implies that much of the western intellectual tradition before The Enlightenment was “dark.” Much of that tradition ...

Long ago, before Westerners associated "enlightenment" with meditation or yoga, there was the Enlightenment: the philosophical revolution of the 1600s and 1700s that made the modern West. Before the ...

During the French Revolution, particularly the Reign of Terror (1793-1794), Enlightenment ideals were marshalled in the name of reason. | The Storming of the Bastille ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

The Enlightenment emerges as an eighteenth-century movement characterised by faith in human reason, scepticism towards traditional authority and a commitment to progress across science, politics and ...

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...

Who could resist the title? László F. Földényi’s new book of essays is called “Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears” (Yale). It sounds like something that might happen in a ...

At the beginning of July 1973, my wife and I arrived in London from Chicago to spend a year doing research in the British Library. Many things conspired to show us that we were not in Kansas anymore: ...