One way to sum up postwar American politics is to say that conservatives try to stop liberals from breaking the liberals’ own rules. The “rules” in this formulation are those of liberalism in the ...
John Locke (1632–1704) concerned himself primarily with society, where his views are often contrasted with those of Thomas Hobbes, and with epistemology, where he is usually placed alongside David ...
Rediscovered papers thought to record the memories of a longstanding friend say the ‘father of liberalism’ plagiarised and lied about never reading Thomas Hobbes John Locke is regarded today as one of ...
Newly discovered ‘Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others’ shows the Enlightenment thinker expressing unexpected social liberalism A “once in a generation” discovery of a centuries-old ...
John Locke's quote "We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around ...
Wolfgang Kasper salutes a progenitor of the great classical liberal tradition. On Thursday some of us commemorated the 300th anniversary of the death of John Locke, the man whose ideas on philosophy ...
According to one popular account of the decline of Western Civilization, everything was humming along splendidly until the moderns came along and ruined it all. The Greeks, we are told, had ...
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Among the enduring riddles of American exceptionalism is the absence in the political mainstream of an overtly socialist party. Whereas in Europe socialist and social democratic parties emerged to ...