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A newly translated biography rescues Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – the 17th-century German philosopher – from Voltaire’s parody of him as a sunny but deluded soul

The world will continue to be absurd, but you, with all your passion, can still make your corner of it more bearable

The Holy Roman Empire, it was famously put (by Voltaire, I think), was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Likewise, the First Amendment "actual malice" test isn't actually about malice, but rather about whether the speaker knew the statement was false or likely false (and indeed the Court has…

As ​Voltaire, an 18th-century writer, historian, and philosopher, said in one of his most popular quotes, “Common sense is not so common.” The post 31 People Confess Things They Didn’t Know Until Embarrassingly Late In Life first appeared on Bored Panda.

The US artist’s work is a riot of words and images that now seem to have eerily foreshadowed Donald Trump – and a grinding, alarming soundtrack has been added for this astonishing, rattling exhibition

If you believe Noah's ark was real and demons come out of the TV, it's just a small jump to embrace the Big Lie

In return, the president gave the King a golden coin featuring Charles’s portrait.

Venice, the “floating city” in northeast Italy, has an intangible magic. The canals coursing between the 118 islands on which it is built, and under the almost 400 bridges connecting them, are alive with boats and gondolas, which remain the lifeblood of Veneto’s regional capital. Its architecture defies gravity, and…

Ed Lyon stands out in the titular role and there’s some witty animation, but Bernstein’s operetta feels too frenetic, with extra fizz forcefully injected