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 ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose ...

One of the great debates during the Haskalah period of the Enlightenment was the status of women. The Moskelim, as they were called, professed admiration for reason, devotion to the idea of the ...

Devin Talbott, founder of the Maryland-based investment firm Enlightenment Capital and chairman of voting machine giant Hart ...

We are living in a unique moment in history. As heirs of the Enlightenment Period, we possess the most powerful tools of the Age of Reason: scientific inquiry, unbiased reasoning, and the daring ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

Babur, the first Mughal emperor, was apocryphally said to have observed after the first battle of Panipat in 1526 that the “Hindustanis” were skilled swordsmen but not very knowledgeable about ...

Did everyone have a good Chuseok holiday? Since it’s essentially the last weekend of the holiday, it feels even more precious. When people think of ...

As a little girl, Belle was my ultimate heroine. She embodied everything I thought was admirable in a person: kind, just, independent, and a book lover. My mother loved to tell the story of when we ...

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the 58-year-old Venezuelan opposition leader for "her struggle to achieve a just ...