Articles by subject: enlightenment
- Revolutionising Tom Paine (by Trevor Griffiths, July/August 2008 )
- Recording his new radio play, Trevor Griffiths discovered the true revolutionary spirit of Tom Paine
- Heights of madness (by Sally Feldman, May/June 2008 )
- As Sex and the City totters on to the big screen, Sally Feldman celebrates the agony and the ecstasy of the stiletto
- The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb (by Stephen Howe, May/June 2008 )
- Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history
- Native son (by Murray Pittock, September/October 2007 )
- 175 years after the death of Scotland’s most celebrated novelist, Murray Pittock asks if Walter Scott was an enemy of the Enlightenment, or its champion
- The Threat to Reason by Dan Hind (by Jonathan Derbyshire, July/August 2007 )
- Jonathan Derbyshire is unthreatened by an enlightenment sceptic
- Who turned off the light? (by Abdelwahab Meddeb, January/February 2007 )
- Abdelwahab Meddeb considers why radical thinking has failed to penetrate the Arab world
- Sailing to Byzantium (by Christopher Lord, November/December 2004 )
- Anti-Enlightenment dogma is creeping into public life in Orthodox eastern Europe, says Christopher Lord
- Outlooks on Enlightenment (by Simon Blackburn, Spring 2002 )
- Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University and a member of the Humanist Philosophers' Group, takes a look at the relative merits of relativism, scepticism and humanism
- Weapons of Civilisation (by Sanal Edamaruku, Winter 2001 )
- There's only one really effective weapon in the war against terrorism. And that's the principles of Enlightenment civilisation, says Sanal Edamaruku
- Towards Enlightenment (by Frank Furedi, Spring 2001 )
- Politics needs Enlightenment says Frank Furedi