period of European history and cultural movement of the 17th and 18th centuries
As part of the John Locke Foundation’s NC250: Freedom’s Vanguard initiative, this essay contest invited students, scholars, historians, and writers to explore North Carolina’s pivotal role in the American Revolution…
Ian Rowe offers helpful ideas for teaching American history. On September 12, 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the request of the New York Civil War Centennial Commission at…
The right to individual liberty is the foundation of Western civilization; without it, Western culture ceases to exist. Individual liberties, such as the right to produce and consume ideas, are…
Here’s what I posted about Harris in 2015 when she was the Attorney General of California: When she was still District Attorney in San Francisco, Harris made headlines by threatening…
In 1961, Ronald Reagan said: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they…
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist ponders the accomplishments of the late Pope Benedict. Upon hearing the news of Pope Benedict XVI’s death on Saturday morning, I immediately thought of…
Coleman Hughes writes for the Free Press about the once widely accepted ideal of a color-blind approach to people and their rights. In a few months, the Supreme Court will…
On Wednesday, Senate Leader Phil Berger held a news conference to discuss the underpinnings of critical race theory (CRT) and legislative action to ensure that no North Carolina student is…
Wondering what kind of vice president Kamala Harris would be? You can get a pretty clear idea from reading what I wrote about her when she was attorney general of…
Mathis Bitton writes at National Review Online about one South American nation‘s experience with technocratic government. On paper, Chile is Latin America’s most developed economy and most stable democracy. In…
Rich Lowry of National Review Online muses about the way America would have evolved if another great European power had colonized it. Our cultural nation was extremely important at the…
That’s how a John Locke scholar characterizes a recently discovered manuscript by our namesake. A recent article in the Guardian describes how the manuscript came to light: Dated to 1667-8, the manuscript…