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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One day when I was in graduate school, I found myself knee-deep in National Union Catalogs (a kind of old-school WorldCat) at the Hoover Institution Library. I had gone in search of nineteenth-century ...

James B. Rose is the spokesperson for the late Mary-Elaine Swanson, who authored John Locke: Philosopher of American Liberty. A forerunner in the field of American Christian Education, Rose is also an ...

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 ...