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 ...

Within the framework of the Digital Locke Project a text critical edition has been made of the works of the British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). Locke is one of the greatest thinkers of the ...

The panel, “Foundations of a Right to Privacy,” was the first of several discussions at a privacy conference at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The speakers ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Andrew Burstein discusses John Locke's philosophy and his influence on the founders. Professor Andrew Burstein discusses John Locke's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Etienne Balibar is Anniversary Chair in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University and emeritus professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Paris 10 Nanterre.

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 ...

Locating a marker honoring John Locke, the English philosopher who wrote the first constitution for Carolina, is a frustrating assignment. It stands to reason that Charleston's connection with the ...

Inspired by the recent discovery of several unknown books from John Locke’s personal library by Cambridge scholar Felix Waldmann, Craig Walmsley set out to see if there were any unpublished Locke ...

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