Since the twin massacres in Paris two weeks ago, a small book with the modest title "Treatise on Tolerance" has rocketed to the top of the best-seller list in France. More than 100,000 have been sold ...

PARIS – A 250-year-old book by the Enlightenment anti-establishment writer Voltaire is climbing best-seller lists in France weeks after the attacks by French-born Islamic extremists that left 20 ...

Paris — A 250-year-old book by the Enlightenment anti-establishment writer Voltaire is climbing best-seller lists in France weeks after attacks by French-born Islamic extremists that left 20 people ...

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 ...

Quote of the day today ultimately stands as both critique and caution. It invites individuals to examine not only the world ...

Quote of the day by Voltaire: Political philosophy, literature, historiography, biblical criticism were some of his main ...

There have been a lot of philosophers in the history of western philosophy who became the epitome of intelligence and whose words flowed like a river of jewels. Nonetheless, no one reached the calibre ...