A reader who comments under the name “candles” writes in the comments box of the Moralistic Therapeutic Journalism thread: There is a powerful strain in the academy in the humanities these days that ...

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, by George Marsden (Basic Books, 218 pp., $26.99) Marsden assumes that this view of middle-class American life ...

User-Created Clip July 8, 2020 2018-09-09T23:18:03-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/db7/1544540352.jpgU.S. Military Academy history professor Robert McDonald ...

A strange book. George Marsden, Bancroft Prize-winning author of “Jonathan Edwards: A Life” (2003), surveys postwar liberalism and its discontents in order “to reflect upon the problem of how American ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. As Europe grapples with Brexit ...

One of the most important and least remarked truths of modern history is that the British enlightenment came before the French, both temporally and intellectually. Himmelfarb's new book does full ...

As we kick off the year commemorating the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Army, we’ll reflect on the rich legacy of service, highlighting events that marked periods in our ...

For Steven Pinker, author of the best-selling “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress,” it’s the best of times—and I don’t mean because his book is selling so well.