As I walk into the “Dare to Know: Chess in the Age of Reason” exhibition, I instantly feel surrounded by history. Even though I’m not a well-seasoned chess master, there are several unique chess sets ...

The many anti-globalist politicians, parties, and movements roiling the politics of Western liberal democracies can be understood in many ways. But the most fruitful may be to view them as the latest ...

You’d expect this book from an author who claims F.D.R. as a hero. Burns’s 18th- and 19th-century Enlightenment—the flourishing of ideas that’s the subject of this book—is essentially the New Deal ...

The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times, by Christopher de Bellaigue(Liveright) For some of the most vehement critics of, as they insist it should be ...

An article which looks at Modern Orthodoxy, its world views and customs and touches upon Open and Centrist Orthodoxy. Judaism responded in different ways to the Enlightenment and the development of ...