The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

The Renaissance is conventionally dated from the 14th to the 17th centuries, but the French term “Renaissance” was coined in the 19th. The major events of the “Scientific Revolution” are usually ...

Who won the last culture war? I’m referring to the skirmishes over Islam, immigration, and liberal democracy that roiled the West in the aftermath of 9/11. In those years, the two opposing camps weren ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As it turns out, The Enlightenment is the name given to The Thinker's plot to "reboot" human ...

The Enlightenment provides a touchstone for our understanding of modern history and, not least, for our sense of the current moment. More than two centuries ago, a shift in outlook sought to throw off ...

Although the Enlightenment revolutionized human thought and transformed the world, it failed to produce a coherent theory of knowledge. The central reason is that the modernist systems of science and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Yoram Hazony offers a corrective to blind faith in reason as the solution to our political differences. But he goes further than he needs to in arguing that the U.S. Constitution isn’t a product of ...