Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose ...
“The Great Divide” explores how ideas that came to the fore during the Enlightenment at once blurred social hierarchies and reinforced them, particularly along ...
The Age of Enlightenment was a period during the 17th and 18th centuries in which intellectuals considered a wide range of ideas, many of which focused on the value of human happiness. While the ...
Ambitious exhibition ‘Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment’ captures the first real age of mass media. How enlightened, truly, was the Enlightenment, a period in Europe ...
The coil of human transformation is often wound tightly. And, as we have seen in the past, and once set in motion, insurmountable change is at hand. Certain epochs stand out, reshaping not just our ...
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