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 ...

To talk favourably of the Enlightenment has become something of a taboo in recent years. Some writers deny its existence, while others present it as a reactionary development. It is therefore ...

Well, in the context of the German Enlightenment, the sense was that philosophy is supposed to do something about it. And to that end, Moses Mendelssohn wrote not only about problems in metaphysics ...

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I last reviewed Jonathan Israel’s Radical Enlightenment on this site in 2001 just after it came out in hardback. Why return to it now? The book itself would justify another review since it is a large ...

One of the most significant intellectual influences on key figures in the Trump administration is Curtis Yarvin, an American computer engineer-turned-blogger who believes that the game is up for US ...

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In Lu Yang’s art, the deliriousness comes from the collision of cutting-edge technology with centuries-old ideas of the highest order.