Among neoconservatives, especially since the Iraq war, French bashing has become quite a popular sport. The French, so the sentiment goes, are appeasers, elitists, cowards and (worst of all) ...

Rabbi Schneur Zalman, founder of Chabad on the right; Napoleon Bonaparte, on left (Editorial Note: What follows is an excerpt from a two-part series written about the epic spiritual battle between ...

This exhibition, curated by students in conjunction with the community-based course, French 310: Censorship and Enlightenment, tells the stories behind the controversial French Enlightenment books in ...

On 12 May this year, the Nation magazine published an article entitled “Mind the Enlightenment.” It is an intellectually unprincipled and vindictive attack on Professor Jonathan Israel’s multi-volume ...

While scholarly interest in the French Enlightenment remains high, Himmelfarb finds that it has no popular resonance except as a “cautionary tale.” The British Enlightenment, too, has suffered a slide ...

Gertrude Himmelfarb, distinguished professor of history emeritus at the City University of New York, delivered the ninth of the 2003-2004 Bradley Lectures on May 10. Edited excerpts follow. The ...

On Sunday, David Brooks discussed theories of the French and Scottish Enlightenments and their relevance to contemporary American politics. In his definitions, he lumped Edmund Burke with Scottish ...