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 has a new article out, although he died in 1704. When England’s King Charles II discovered a failed 1683 assassination plot against himself and his brother, he beheaded the plotters and ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. Arguably no philosopher had a greater influence ...

THIS excellent book on a thinker who is a classic A in philosophy will give fresh impetus to dis cussion and controversy. It is not the first part of this work, which deals adequately with Locke's ...

Is John Locke a legal moralist? In his Letter concerning Toleration, Locke argues that, while the state should not punish people for their private religious beliefs, it is still permissible, indeed ...

Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 3/4, John Locke and the Bible, Leo Strauss as Jew and Philosopher (Fall 1997), pp. 5-18 (14 pages) The preference for republican government over monarchy ...