Reflections on the Revolution in France was an indictment not only of the French Revolution but of the French Enlightenment.

A new book explains what the English Revolution of 1688 meant.

The author discusses the effects of the British Enlightment on American political philosophy today, keeping in mind the French and American Enlightments.

Edmund Burke is identified today as a conservative thinker--indeed, one of the greatest conservative thinkers--by his admirers. But his conservatism was more complicated and provocative than even conservatives appreciate. His Reflections on the Revolution in France, a searing indictment of the Revolution, brilliantly forecast the Reign of Terror that was...

In de-moralizing social policy--divorcing it from any moral criteria, requirements, or expectations--we have demoralized, in the more familiar sense, society as a whole.

The Enlightenment has traditionally been identified with eighteenth-century France. To also focus upon Britain and America is to redefine the concept of “enlightenment” by recalling the distinctive ideas that helped shape the very different course of history in those countries--ideas that still resonate today. Gertrude Himmelfarb will discuss the ideas...

Twenty years ago, AEI launched the Bradley Lecture series to explore the important ideas that have shaped Western civilization and modern American politics.