The African Enlightenment
AEON – The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave he ideals of the Enlightenment are the basis of our democracies and universities in the 21st century: belief in reason, science, skepticism, secularism, and equality. In fact, no other era compares […]
The Emperor’s electric chair
By MIKE DASH Many countries have folk-tales that feature foolish kings – monarchs whose vanity causes them to make catastrophic misjudgements or attempt impossible things. Greek mythology offers the tradition of King Midas, who lived to regret wishing for the power to turn everything he touched into gold; for we Brits, the foolish ruler is […]