As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

July 4th, 2025, marks the 249th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence and the formal beginning of the American Revolution. In just under 250 years, the structure of the ...

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

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

The Washington Post/ Political attacks on higher education are escalating as we approach next year’s 250th anniversary of the ...

But my friend recommended that I read C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” — a book he believed would speak to my ...

“The U.S. DOGE Service is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents, a campaign that often violates or ...

Anti-democratic ‘Dark Enlightenment’ ideas have spread from Silicon Valley to Washington Christopher Collins Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published May 19, 2025 ...

PUTRAJAYA: Ideas that include principles and moral values will bring Malaysia closer to realising its potential as a thriving, just and innovative nation, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

When enlightenment was cool. Detail of The Weimar Courtyard of the Muses, 1860, by Theobald von Oer, depicts famous German poets Friedrich Shiller, at centre, and Goethe, to the right. Image via ...

The Enlightenment, it has now been established, was as much a religious phenomenon as it was a secular one. This conference brings together leading scholars from around the world to interrogate the ...

Judaism and Enlightenment (Ideas in Context, Series Number 66) Adam Sutcliffe (Author) Cambridge University Press 340 pages $89.80 ...