When I was in college I took a course in the Enlightenment. In those days, when people spoke of the Enlightenment, they usually meant the French Enlightenment — such thinkers as Descartes, Rousseau, ...

Courtesy of Britain’s Enlightenment and its “moral philosophers,” the religious virtue of compassion has become a secular one, and a private duty has become a public responsibility, writes Gertrude ...

The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments , by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Alfred A. Knopf, 272 pages, $25. The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American ...

On Sunday, David Brooks discussed theories of the French and Scottish Enlightenments and their relevance to contemporary American politics. In his definitions, he lumped Edmund Burke with Scottish ...

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.

A blind spot -- The birth of an ideology -- Clearing away the rubbish -- Print culture -- Rationalizing religion -- The culture of science -- Anatomizing human nature -- The science of politics -- ...