Cabaret Voltaire are set to mark 50 years since their first live shows with a special performance at Sheffield’s Forge Warehouse this October. Taking place as part of this year’s Sensoria Festival, ...

The great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—born in Leipzig in 1646—died nearly 40 years before the Lisbon earthquake, but the event would shape his legacy. Voltaire mordantly responded to ...

Dada was born 100 years ago in the “total pandemonium” of Zurich’s wild Cabaret Voltaire – and art and culture have never been the same since, writes Alastair Sooke. In 1916, a young ...

The Societe Voltaire, a group that safeguards the philosopher's legacy called Voltaire the rallying symbol for those who do not accept violence in the name of religion. The publishing house ...

Meanwhile—300 years earlier, in France—a mathematician, scientist, and lover to Voltaire finds out she’s about to become one. From the writer of Native Gardens and Destiny of Desire a bright ...

The claim: Voltaire said, 'If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize' Voltaire is one of the many historical figures that is often misattributed.