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Enlightenment
November 21, 2023
Sean T. Byrnes
Patrick Deneen’s Escape from Liberalism
“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.
April 11, 2023
Magazine
Ian Beacock
Did Pirates Pioneer Democracy?
David Graeber’s final book uncovers the politics of the high seas.
February 26, 2019
Matthew C. Simpson
An Engineer of Subversive Ideas
Denis Diderot loved the things that made others uneasy: ambiguity, change, doubt, and the pleasures of the flesh.
January 24, 2019
Warren Breckman
The Conflicted Soul of Modern Liberalism
A new book traces the history of an idea—and shows what American liberals have lost.
October 16, 2018
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
George Scialabba, Radical Democrat
A new collection of far-sighted essays dissects the pathologies of the present moment.
March 19, 2018
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Samuel Moyn
Hype for the Best
Why does Steven Pinker insist that human life is on the up?
August 7, 2017
Colin Dickey
A Brief History of Invisible Waves
How the discovery of X-rays and infrared made us doubt the senses.
May 21, 2015
Jacob Soll
The Culture of Criticism
What do we owe the Enlightenment?
July 12, 2014
G.W. Bowersock
Remember the Greek Enlightenment?
Neither does Greece, to judge by its government
April 7, 2003
Erin Leib
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