One must be extremely cautious when writing satirical articles. This is because readers may misunderstand the true intent ...

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 founders took a different path. They were not hostile to religion. They knew the Bible well, proclaimed days of prayer and fasting, and often spoke of Providence. But they also absorbed the ...

Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Gottlieb Becker/Public Domain. In 1783, two years after the publication of his masterpiece, The Critique of Pure Reason, the 59-year-old Immanuel Kant could finally ...

David Hume, the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, was born in Edinburgh in 1711. There he lived for many years, and there he died, perhaps the most famous Scot in history. It was thus ...