Literature has the potential to create conditions and cultures that facilitate important endings and beginnings, such as abolition, such as independence, such as the end of apartheid, the end of ...

A speech by the author of ‘Radical Universalism’ at the Buchenwald camp was cancelled in April due to pressure from the ...

But my friend recommended that I read C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” — a book he believed would speak to my ...

Inspiring to imagine but nightmarish to live in, these failed communes have become cautionary tales in hubris and ego.

As he examines how tolerance, intellectual reasoning, and critical inquiry play a pivotal role for humanism and moderation, he also portrays cultural enlightenment as a counter measure to ...

In essence, humanism believes in the primacy of human agency, or the belief that humans are in charge of their own destinies; it is an Enlightenment idea that took agency away from divinity and placed ...

The Enlightenment was a period in European history stretching from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century, a period also known as the age of reason. The cardinal principles of reason, ...

Near the start of her account of humanism, Sarah Bakewell draws an important distinction. Anti-humanists, she writes, despise the material world and seek either to escape it using religion or ...

Sarah Bakewell takes us on a 700-year tour of humanism In ‘Humanly Possible,’ the popularizer of the history of philosophy examines the tradition that celebrates critical thinking and good ...