On 12 May this year, the Nation magazine published an article entitled “Mind the Enlightenment.” It is an intellectually unprincipled and vindictive attack on Professor Jonathan Israel’s multi-volume ...

For all their championing of reason, toleration, and individual rights, the heroes of the Enlightenment were not exactly enlightened about Jews. A “vile people, superstitious, ignorant, and both ...

You might not have noticed, but for several decades a small war has been raging around the so-called “Enlightenment” of 18th-century Europe. According to its defenders, the Enlightenment gave us many ...