Curtis Yarvin has, for about a decade and a half now, been a highly influential figure on Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic ...

Meet the man who has been advocating to replace American democracy with an all-powerful monarchy — and who has the ear of ...

The two have in common the idea of 'light,'" wrote John Robertson, a professor of the history of political thought at the University of Cambridge in his book "The Enlightenment: A Very Short ...

The shape this unrest took, however, was undoubtedly the result of ideas introduced during the Enlightenment. Protestors were not merely rebelling against their king, but against the political ...

Pirate Enlightenment establishes non-Westerners ... Elements of shipboard pirate life, such as radical equality and democracy, were ideas that washed ashore and set roots in Madagascar along ...

“The Great Divide” explores how ideas that came to the fore during the Enlightenment at once blurred social hierarchies and reinforced them, particularly along lines of gender and rac ...

Nearing retirement, naturalist José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (1763–1838) was an intellectual imbued with ideas of the Enlightenment. He fought against French troops led by Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 ...

This conference brings together leading scholars from around the world to interrogate the ways in which Catholics, in particular, interpreted and extended Enlightenment ideas to rethink and reform ...

But the scientific, empirical and rational ideas of Enlightenment thinking were brand new and unfamiliar. Thus, when the Framers followed this manner of thought to create the Constitution ...

A radical ideology known as the Dark Enlightenment is fueling a billionaire ... asked how to best convince schools to adopt some of my ideas. I suggested they should “become politically active ...

But, this idea of a Jonestown tourism site should also serve to highlight how easy it is for cults to brainwash and fool not just ordinary folks, but also brilliant leaders such as Burnham and ...