Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral inheritance while refusing responsibility for it. Enlightenment thinkers wrote toward ...

This interdisciplinary outlook became a hallmark of Enlightenment thought and laid the groundwork for modern intellectual traditions. The book pays tribute to the scholars, translators and thinkers ...

I wasn’t inspired to write this novel by any single event, but rather by a sequence of events—a succession of widespread ...

Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.

The best essay boils down to the strongest argument. So, if you find yourself struggling to come up with one, drop the ...

In his insightful new book, The Revolution to Come, Dan Edelstein offers some surprising answers to these questions and explores how the idea of revolution has changed over time. What was once called ...

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ...

An Indiana bill could require the Bible to be taught at every grade level across the state – and potentially send public ...

The Trump adviser’s assertions about the “real world” reflect a deep misunderstanding of Thomas Hobbes’s dog-eat-dog ...

As memories of Christmas and New Year fade, there’s plenty to look forward to on the box. From BBC One’s prison drama Waiting ...

The university has caved to a lens more sensitive to perpetrators of racism and misogyny than the targets of them.

RALEIGH — In places where governments are smaller, taxes are lower, regulations are lighter and property rights are more secure, people tend to be more generous, trustful and tolerant. Although my ...