Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of ...

For all their championing of reason, toleration, and individual rights, the heroes of the Enlightenment were not exactly enlightened about Jews. A “vile people, superstitious, ignorant, and both ...

It’s a bad time to be one of the 18th-century’s greatest thinkers. In 2020, Edinburgh University renamed Hume Tower on its central campus because of Scottish philosopher David Hume’s white supremacist ...