The idea suggested at left is most closely associated with 18th Century French writer Voltaire. It’s of particular relevance today, as our right-wing government is aggressively...
What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true. Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation...
This from French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet, known to us as Voltaire. If you’ve never read Candide, I hope you’ll treat yourself. The...