‘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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief George Marsden (Author) Basic Books. 264 pages. $20.02 ...

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 ...