Offering a provocative thesis that demonstrates Islamabad’s inability to address conflict and foster peace, Professor Moonis Ahmar’s latest book The Challenge of Enlightenment, Conflict Transformation ...
Kant goes on to advance free speech, “the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters”, as the prerequisite of progress and ...
Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose ...
Giorgia Meloni Unleashes Epic Fury on Trump’s G-7 Antics Audio By Carbonatix James Lindsay, who has worked to expose the lunacy of leftist ideologies such as critical race theory, spoke to young ...
In this interview, exclusive for CounterPunch, Richard Whatmore discusses his latest book, The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis (Penguin, 2023). In a world that demands highly rational ...
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 ...
The Enlightenment. By Ritchie Robertson.Allen Lane; 1,008 pages; £40. To be published in America by Harper in February; $45. IN SEPTEMBER THE University of Edinburgh expunged the name of David Hume ...
Why can’t religion and the Enlightenment be friends? What’s that, you say? They were friends? Why didn’t anyone tell us? Well, David Sorkin has. A professor of history and Jewish studies at the ...
In the late 1960s, college students around the world began meditating in search of enlightenment. What if, more than 50 years later, they are finding what they were looking for? What is enlightenment?