The complete history of Prussia is explored, focusing on the incredibly tragic and emotionally intense relationship between Frederick William, 'the Soldier King,' and his son, Frederick the Great.

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 ...

For all their championing of reason, toleration, and individual rights, the heroes of the Enlightenment were not exactly enlightened about Jews. A “vile people, superstitious, ignorant, and both ...

You might not have noticed, but for several decades a small war has been raging around the so-called “Enlightenment” of 18th-century Europe. According to its defenders, the Enlightenment gave us many ...