John Westbrooke sees a British painter who mingled the Enlightenment and the darkly Gothic There’s a lot going on in Joseph Wright’s “The Air Pump”, the 1768 centrepiece of the latest ...

Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?

The Royal Navy came into its own during the "Age of Reason," in which ancient Greece was seen as a virtuous and exemplary ...

From flaming raki to nettle-whipping and garlic necklaces, Greek grandmothers have used these natural remedies for millennia.

Studying brain scans from nearly 4,000 people across the whole spectrum of human life, from newborns to 90-year-olds, a team ...

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Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity.

But why Enlightenment? Because it is Enlightenment that leads us to liberation from all misery and suffering on Earth and ...

We’ve known for a long time that the planets travel around the sun, but there was a period where this was still new, exciting, and worthy of public demonstrations. Eighteenth century artist Joseph ...

MANITOULIN—Ask most people what comes to mind when they hear the word ‘Masons’ and chances are good many will say a secret society. Fans of Dan Brown novels might even go so far as to suggest the ...

“If there is an all-powerful, all-good and all-benevolent God, then why is there suffering and evil in the world?” One of my classes recently attempted to tackle the question above, a question that ...