As the economist Angus Deaton once wrote, "Ever since people rebelled against authority in the Enlightenment, and set about using the force of reason to make their lives better, they have found a ...

While the Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th centuries was a time when science blossomed and revolutions in the United States and France occurred, it was also a time when millions of people ...

The mysterious feud between Pinker and people who study the intellectual period he reveres This fight between Pinker and Enlightenment scholars is puzzling on some levels. After all, why wouldn ...

Before the Enlightenment discovered natural rights, most people had no rights, speech was restricted, and few governments were accountable to their subjects. Enlightenment ideals are still common ...

They arise automatically and result in emotional actions.”) And even if I didn’t achieve enlightenment in the process, I certainly felt less powerless to the whims of my triggers: Cookies.

they used the hygienic innovation of the guillotine to murder people in the name of Enlightenment values on a scale that would have been unthinkable in the Ancien Régime. Communism was inherently ...

These terms are synonymous with enlightenment. Yet both Maslow and Jung declared that few people attain the goal. The simple explanation for so many giving up on or falling short of the goal is ...

But scientific as well as intuitive evidence suggests that tribalism can be seductive when people feel that their local connections are under threat. At the same time, the Enlightenment emphasis ...