Fascination with Pope Francis's funeral and Pope Leo's election reveals the enduring relevance of religion and Christianity ...

Eventually they encountered a more insidious internal foe — the Age of Enlightenment, which early spawned great thinkers like Locke, Voltaire, and Kant, later bloodthirsty anticlerical fanatics ...

The ‘Francophonie Month 2025’ closing ceremony was held recently under the patronage and in the presence of Honorary ...

Three ideological currents – ultraconservative Christians, national-populists and techno-libertarians – though often at odds, have all been buoyed by Donald Trump's victory.

France’s Enlightenment or Britain’s empire. Ball wanted to shock anyone, he wrote, who regarded “all this civilized carnage as a triumph of European intelligence.” One Cabaret Voltaire ...

was a close friend of Enlightenment philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire. By 1755, having reached the ripe old age of 24, Vacheron decided to pass on his already masterful horological ...

This philosophical shift ushered in the Enlightenment and the age of conquest ... Locke, Kant, Hume, and Voltaire—widely revered as Enlightenment thinkers—either justified slavery, classified ...

He dies of cancer at age 51 on St. Helena ... the youthful Napoleon primarily identified with the Enlightenment and the dreams of Rousseau and Voltaire. That both were forced into exile by ...

Art Diary, I include three exhibitions involving gardens – at Gainsborough's House, Philip Mould and Company, and Waddesdon ...

Sidis was accepted to Harvard University at the age of nine ... better known by his pen name Voltaire was a towering figure in the French Enlightenment, a period of intellectual ferment and ...