Our declaration of revolt against kings and intrusive parliaments was possible because of the theoretical framework provided ...

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, by David Graeber, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 208 pages, $27. Value is established on the margins. That is a central insight of both Austrian and ...

The loose collection of ideas that comprise Dark Enlightenment thinking emerged in the late 2000s through blogs and online forums popular among the Silicon Valley set.

The Enlightenment grew out of the Protestant Reformation and Italian Renaissance. ... The shape this unrest took, however, was undoubtedly the result of ideas introduced during the Enlightenment.

Influenced by the Enlightenment ideas, which prioritized reason over superstition, the Founding Fathers understood well the significance of pluralism and democratic dissent (it is common knowledge ...

But Enlightenment ideals like universal liberty and social contracts were viewed primarily as rational goals, not humanitarian ones. “We have over the centuries attributed virtuous ideas to ...