There’s something about the Enlightenment. Today, few educated men and women spend much time debating whether Western civilization took a disastrously wrong turn in the High Middle Ages. They do not ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
WHEN James Boswell was in Rome, aged 24, and with few accomplishments to his name other than bouts of gonorrhoea and panic attacks about the afterlife, he had his portrait painted by George Willison.
Translated by Masud Azarfam, the book was published by Qoqnus. An eminent scholar of modern culture argues that the enlightenment, the importance of which has been vigorously debated in recent years, ...
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 ...
Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering by David A. Kessler Harper Wave, 2016 ($27.99; 416 pages) When American novelist David Foster Wallace delivered the commencement address at Kenyon ...
It's been said that there's a Simpsons reference for everything. So why shouldn't there be one for Steven Pinker, the Canadian-American psychologist and pop-science author? Consider the episode in ...
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