Just the other day I was asked to explain how countries like Iran become so backwards in terms of humanistic values. A big part of the answer is they never went through what the West experienced in the 18th Century, …
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Denis Diderot's Ideas Lie At the Base of Modern Western Civilization
Last Friday was the birthday of French philosopher Denis Diderot, who said, “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Holy cow, that’s some powerful language. It appears to summarize …
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