In a speech before the Brexit vote, Boris Johnson offered a controversial historical pedigree for his campaign to leave the…
God in the Enlightenment
Book reviews
These original essays are based on a recent book, written by someone other than the author.
The Weimar Century
The international turn in intellectual history, which David Armitage announced in 2014, has evolved into a surge of publications on…
The Virtues of Abandon
In 1698 the Parlement of Dijon found a Catholic priest guilty of engaging in sex with members of his flock.…
Radical Secularization?
In a discussion in the German press about the displacement of continental philosophy in Europe by the increasingly triumphant advance…
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
Thinkers like Joseph de Maistre and the attitudes they embody are the subject of Mark Lilla’s new book, The Shipwrecked…
From Christ to Confucius
In his exciting and beautifully written book, From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity,…
The End of Theology
There is an important ambiguity that attends the philosophical use of the term “end.” On the one hand, it can…