Which City is Called the City of Lights?

Paris is the capital of France, which is famously called the 'City of Lights' for being one of the first cities to use gas ...
The Michigan Daily

Choosing classes in the Age of Enlightenment

Today is a special day. No, not because it’s Voltaire’s birthday, because I’m sure that’s what you thought I was going to say. The joyous day to which I am referring is the beginning of registration ...
WGBH

A new exhibit looks at the role print played in the Age of Enlightenment

"Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” looks at prints and drawings from the 18th century, a time of revolutions -- both political and idological. The exhibition encourages ...
Yale Environment 360

Defending Enlightenment reasoning in an age of ‘alternative facts’

Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose ...