Enlightenment

The Hapsburgs and the French Revolution

Upon the outbreak of the French Revolution, Europe's first family, the Hapsburg, were propelled into a crisis that they struggled to contain

The Killing Age with Clifton Crais

One of the great terrors of the Enlightenment lay in the way it justified death as the cost of progress. Clifton Crais explains his view of 'the Killing Age'

Samuel Johnson and the Perils of Hope

On the anniversary of Johnson's birth, Peter Moore considers a subject that deeply engaged the great writer.