The slaughter of nine worshippers in a Charleston church once more forces us to have conversations we would rather not have. This was clearly an act of terrorism, as defined by the FBI, but we will ...

For the time being, short of impeachment and a vote in the Senate, we Americans are stuck with President Donald Trump, whose ongoing New York-based business kingdom he continues to control in one way ...

The philosopher Tzvetan Todorov argues that, notwithstanding its many varieties and fuzzy boundaries, the Enlightenment centres around three radical ideas: ‘autonomy’, or the idea that individuals ...

The headlines in the newspaper and blared on television news often tell of ways in which the world may be getting worse, but the importance of seeing the world as it really is cannot be overstated. In ...

Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. In a new book, Peter MacKinnon discusses how Enlightenment values have come under attack, while populist ...

Modernization theory, originating from the Enlightenment, suggests that values and institutions must change for a society to modernize. Values bring the individuals to the centre of attention. Based ...

It would probably come as a surprise to most readers in Europe and America that the Enlightenment spread all the way to Greece in the eighteenth century and spawned revolutionary movements in support ...