Secularism has long been viewed as integral to modernization due to its connection with the Enlightenment. The broad ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...

Philosopher John Locke’s concept of natural rights argued ... Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." As these Enlightenment ideals spread throughout the colonies, so did unrest, driven by ...

It has been documented that many of the Founding Fathers were influenced by so-called “Enlightenment Thinkers” like Rousseau, John Locke, and Montesquieu, who believed in the separation of ...

In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.

John Locke The English philosopher and political ... "It is said that we can't attain enlightenment, let alone feel contentment and joy, without seeing who we are and what we do, without seeing ...

The 17th and 18th centuries rode roughshod over the programming at the 92Y the other night, when that brilliant British ...

Hong Kong student Andre Chung Cheuk-hei won a global essay competition organised by the John Locke Institute, beating contestants from all over the world earlier this month. The 14-year-old winner ...

Reacting a few days ago to President Donald Trump’s brief attempt to suspend payment on a broad swath of federal grants, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer warned that “virtually any organization, ...

The philosophers of the Enlightenment, whose belief in the possibility of law-based democratic states gave us both the American and French Revolutions, railed against what they called obscurantism ...

John Mahama has been sworn in for a second term as Ghana’s president at a ceremony in the capital Accra, with around 20 African leaders in attendance. Mahama won 56 percent of the vote in the ...