Coffee has powered some of the great intellectual movements of our time, a new book reveals. NY Post photo composite Not long ago, author Michael Pollan quit caffeine cold turkey. He wasn’t keen to ...
Discover what caused the French Revolution. Learn about the history, reasons, social inequality and debt to Enlightenment ideas, and food shortages. The French Revolution stands as one of the most ...
In The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon, Christy Pichichero “aims to bring war and military thought to their proper place in our understanding of ...
In this interview, exclusive for CounterPunch, Richard Whatmore discusses his latest book, The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis (Penguin, 2023). In a world that demands highly rational ...
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‘The Enlightenment’ Review: Waves of New Thinking
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 ...
It’s the middle of the summer, and once more our thoughts turn to that special place in our consciousness we reserve for July 4. We will again celebrate what we have and how we got it. We may even ...
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