On this day in 1536, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam died at Basel. He was 69 years old. This year is the 500th anniversary of the printing of The Praise of Folly, the famous essay addressed to ...

The presidency of Donald Trump, nearly a year old, has revived a political debate that began in earnest in sixteenth-century Europe: does a nation require leaders of good moral character in order ...

Maybe if he had read Erasmus’ “In Praise of Folly” he would realize that throwing around authors’ names does not, in fact, make you enlightened. Newman has offered us false profundity masquerading as ...

The Praise Of Folly And Footnote 124. Mar. 27, 2016 1:47 PM ET NUS, HLF 26 Comments. William Keep. 261 Followers. Follow. ... No one understood this better than Desiderius Erasmus, ...

in praise of folly however familiar he became, václav havel always represented – and offered – something different. Skip to main content. Advertisement. ... And the political cornerstone can perhaps ...