Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral ...

The Enlightenment provides a touchstone for our understanding of modern history and, not least, for our sense of the current moment. More than two centuries ago, a shift in outlook sought to throw off ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mary O'Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly No one appreciated the power of capitalism more than ...

The Englightenment is celebrated in the West as an age of progress. It was also an age that cemented some of the worst human traits ...

Since this is my first column of 2026, I wish you a healthy, happy, and peaceful new year. I think we’ve all earned it. I ...

This interdisciplinary outlook became a hallmark of Enlightenment thought and laid the groundwork for modern intellectual traditions. The book pays tribute to the scholars, translators and thinkers ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Hadley Arkes talked about the enlightenment ideas that contributed to the concept that power should be derived from the consent of the ...

Imagine that Ruhollah Khomeini, the former Supreme Leader of Iran who led the Islamic Revolution, finds his palace swarmed by hundreds of thousands of ghosts who were executed by revolutionaries. An ...

The Enlightenment. By Ritchie Robertson.Allen Lane; 1,008 pages; £40. To be published in America by Harper in February; $45. IN SEPTEMBER THE University of Edinburgh expunged the name of David Hume ...

A lot of my writing focuses on enlightenment and / or self-actualization as a psychological goal. Part of this is a result of the existential belief that enlightenment / self-actualization is the goal ...