‘It is human nature,” Notre Dame history professor emeritus George M. Marsden writes in “The Twilight of the American Enlightenment,” “to look back on an earlier era, especially the days ...

During the Obama Presidency, and likely into the Trump Presidency, U.S. foreign policy has increasingly divorced itself from the principles of the founding fathers -- men of the American ...

Barton Swaim reviews "The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief," by George M. Marsden.

The text says that governments are human constructions. The legitimacy of governments depends upon democratic consent, not ...

You could call them the three pillars of the American Idea. These three pillars are the direct gifts to America of three great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment: Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith ...

Further north in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson, a delegate of the Second Continental Congress and part of the committee to draft a proposal that could sum up fellow delegate Richard Henry Lee’s ...

The American right has another major critic of the Enlightenment much closer to home. The billionaire Peter Thiel has been compared to Dugin by the latter’s biographer.