Anti-Enlightenment Thinking, Past and Present The Enlightenment was as remarkable as it was unexpected, but it led directly to the benefits we enjoy today. Adam Wakeling 15 Nov 2023 · 9 min read
Antisemitism: The Sinister Pattern The enemies of the Jews are the enemies of Enlightenment. Brett Hall 1 Nov 2023 · 12 min read
Podcast #169: Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Rational Thinking, the Monty Hall Problem, and the Case for Objective Truth Enlightenment Now author Steven Pinker speaks with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his newly published book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters Quillette / Steven Pinker 18 Oct 2021 · 1 min read
Be Rational When we apply reason to reason itself, we find that it is not just an inarticulate gut impulse, a mysterious oracle that whispers truths into our ear. Steven Pinker 28 Sep 2021 · 12 min read
How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed? The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment. Samantha Jones 10 Apr 2021 · 11 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Steven Pinker 14 Jan 2019 · 52 min read
Between Discipline and Chaos No human institution can ever secure a definitive interpretation of goodness, and it is usually the ones that claim to have done so that betray their own purpose. Patrick Lee Miller 29 Dec 2018 · 11 min read
