History is a funny thing, and we are living in truly historic times. There are several adages about history that most of us are familiar with, such as “those who fail to learn from the past are doomed ...

On the International Day of Democracy, which is observed every year on September 15, let’s revisit the ideals of democracy and find out if it’s about a competitive struggle for people’s votes or a ...

Do you think you could pass the Swiss citizenship test in Geneva, Switzerland's second-most populous canton? We've translated some of the questions so you can test yourself!

James Earl Jones will forever be remembered for his signature basso profundo voice that gave Darth Vader from the Star Wars ...

Silliness can find a place in art, as we see in some of Erik Satie’s work titles, but sometimes it is just silly.

Samuel Butler, the son of an Anglican clergyman, became a successful sheep farmer in his mid-20s after arriving at Lyttelton ...

A 96-year-old woman has been served a three-day eviction notice from her senior living home unless she pays $110,000. Jean Jacques, who has been living in the property for 22 years, moved into the ...

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau once described the shift from a state of nature to society as one from “what is not to what is.” For Rousseau, “what is” was a realm of immorality ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Enlightenment was the dawn of our own age, reactivating ancient traditions of equal political status and citizenship and making Rousseau immortal for his concerns about ...

Telecommunications provider Flow Dominica has announced the appointment of Francine Harve Jean-Jacques as the new Marketing and Communications Executive. Jean-Jacques, who has been managing the ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s novel “Émile; ou, de l’éducation,” (Emile; or, On Education), published in 1762; is what many historians believe sparked wholesale educational reform in Europe, which utilized ...

The English philosophers and economists John Locke, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Edmund Burke and Adam Smith propounded a liberal philosophy, as did the Frenchmen Montesquieu, Voltaire, and ...