Filippo Tommaso Marinetti liked automobiles, particularly his four-cylinder Fiat sports car. For him, the car represented innovation and vitality, even violence. Most of all, it signified the future.

So what is the Enlightenment, the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant was asked back in 1784 – as this transformative body of ideas and values swept across Europe. It is, he replied, to dare to ...

Paris is called the City of Lights for two reasons: its early adoption of street lighting and its historic role as a centre ...

Think Progress gives us this gem from G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, a moment where the host contemplates the prospect of a Justice Sotomayor: LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she ...