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 ...

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 ...

Although the Enlightenment revolutionized human thought and transformed the world, it failed to produce a coherent theory of knowledge. The central reason is that the modernist systems of science and ...

Yoram Hazony offers a corrective to blind faith in reason as the solution to our political differences. But he goes further than he needs to in arguing that the U.S. Constitution isn’t a product of ...

It is not often recognized that, prior to the 17th and 18th centuries, the period which Western history calls the Enlightenment, the concept of race did not exist. It is still less often recognized ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. As Europe grapples with Brexit ...

On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard and author of the new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism ...

Source: John Locke's Kit-cat portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) played a vital role in promoting the ideals 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.