Islamic terror has been trending down for five years. Some American officials said this would never happen. America has failed to properly fight terrorism, said ...
There’s something about the Enlightenment. Today, few educated men and women spend much time debating whether Western civilization took a disastrously wrong turn in the High Middle Ages. They do not ...
On 12 May this year, the Nation magazine published an article entitled “Mind the Enlightenment.” It is an intellectually unprincipled and vindictive attack on Professor Jonathan Israel’s multi-volume ...
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 ...
AS THE “wild men” of Scotland, the Highlanders’ historic reputation still stands today: fearless and fierce in battle, hard-drinking and quick to take offence. But according to new research, their ...
Was the Enlightenment a Good Thing? At first blush, the question sounds almost sacrilegious. The eighteenth-century Enlightenment, after all, taught us to be democratic and to believe in human rights, ...
**This episode originally aired May 18, 2018. It may be tempting to think human civilization is on the verge of collapse: environmental degradation, the rise in authoritarianism, ballooning income ...