CLEVELAND, Ohio – Roll over Voltaire and tell Kant and Hobbes the news. The Cleveland Museum of Art has trained focus on the Enlightenment period in Europe (1685–1815, aka “the age of reason”) with ...

At the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson travelled to Paris to meet with leaders of the victorious Allied Powers. After four years of war, Europe was exhausted. The enormous costs of the ...

The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism—relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity.

Dr. Bell is a professor of history at Princeton. Will artificial intelligence bring about an intellectual revolution as profound as the Enlightenment? Enthusiasts like to make this claim, and even use ...

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti liked automobiles, particularly his four-cylinder Fiat sports car. For him, the car represented innovation and vitality, even violence. Most of all, it signified the future.

Enlightenment is a confusing concept, blurry enough that most people don’t think about it and certainly don’t assume it applies to them. But in many ways it does. If you break down the meaning of ...

We’ve known for a long time that the planets travel around the sun, but there was a period where this was still new, exciting, and worthy of public demonstrations. Eighteenth century artist Joseph ...