Help keep Salon independent

Topic: enlightenment

Virginie Efira in Paul Verhoeven’s "Benedetta" (IFC Films)

The long history of sexy nunsploitation

Kaite Welsh
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, Jair Bolsonaro, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Getty Images/AFP/ADEM ALTAN/DAMIR SENCAR/Daniel Jayo/EVARISTO SA/Salon)

Misogyny is destroying democracy

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Salon)

Democracy has a problem with science

Michael J. Thompson, Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
Steven Pinker (Getty/Brad Barket)

Enlightening Steven Pinker

Émile P. Torres
Advertisement:
(Wikimedia)

Hello witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment

Frank Klaassen - The Conversation
Bill Gates; Steven Pinker (Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Why Pinker doesn't get the Enlightenment

Erika Schelby
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker (Getty/Prakash Singh/Penguin Random House)

Steven Pinker's apology for capitalism

Conor Lynch
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-2727070p1.html'>Konstantin Tronin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

What moms get in return

Danya Ruttenberg
Advertisement:
(Reuters)

Marty Kaplan - Alternet
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters/Chris Keane/Photo collage by Salon)

Elias Isquith
Advertisement: