Source: Law & Liberty
by Carson Holloway
“We live in large-scale political communities that have delivered unprecedented levels of peace, freedom, and prosperity to vast numbers of human beings. At the same time, modern science and technology have generated comforts, useful tools, and remedies for illnesses that would have been unthinkable to our ancestors. But the Enlightenment promised more than this. As the name itself implies, the thinkers of the Enlightenment believed that it was both possible and desirable to popularize reason and science and to establish self-governing societies that administer their affairs on the basis of reason. This promise seems not to have been fully realized.” (02/10/26)