This year marks the 300th anniversary of the publication of a book that contemporaries saw as inaugurating the Enlightenment in France: Montesquieu’s Persian Letters.

Toward ‘enlightenment’ Posted February 19, 2025 10:08 am In a previous commentary, I compared Trump and his appointees to the Wizard of Oz and having them pull the curtain back.

In these letters, people described how they played the first three Ultimas, which were open-world games that did not require a linear path to complete, giving players the freedom to steal from ...

In regards to Kevin Dufresne’s editorial titled “Freedom of vs. Freedom from” religion in the Constitution and how the nation was formed by Christians, Mr. Dufresne might be interested to ...

The 'woke' will lead us to enlightenment and more letters to the editors. August 10, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. | Updated August 10, 2020 at 8:37 p.m.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter captioned "Our personal lives should not diminish whatever professional talent we possess" (08.02.19) by Clinton ...

(The view that the Enlightenment led to Hitler is today popular with the religious right. "You know the Age of Enlightenment and Reason gave way to moral relativism," said Penny Nance, the CEO of ...

March 27 will be a red-letter day in the life of Malesh Narredu. It was the day when he saddled his first career winner as a trainer. Malesh, who has to his cre ...

To the editor — Re: Bins of Light ...

Doctor William Cullen's Enlightenment-era letters to be made available online. Samuel Johnson and a Russian princess were among physician’s corresponding clients ...

Like all good liberal intellectuals of the last century, Saul Bellow’s Moses Herzog spent a great deal of time agonising over the legacy of the Enlightenment. Cuckolded and divorced, Herzog seeks to ...