Is this world the best possible world? Some would agree that it is because God, as a perfect being, created it. However, some ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply “Voltaire” in 1718. Candide is his most enduring work—a raw, rollicking, ...

The play is made up of selected letter exchanges between the great French-European philosopher and the royal prince, later king, of Prussia, beginning when the latter was a mere 24 years old and the ...