‘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 American vision has a high degree of tolerance for inequality and a robust commitment to individual liberty, because in the American revolutionary tradition, the pursuit of happiness is an ...

Letters to the Editor: We need another American enlightenment to save democracy. A rally against the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade on June 27 in downtown Los Angeles.

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.