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Happy Birthday, John Locke!
Sunday marked the 389th anniversary of the birth of the John Locke Foundation’s namesake. So who was this Locke fellow? Why should we wish him a happy birthday? As the…
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
Law & Public Safety
Supreme Court history lesson on protests and sedition
Hadley Arkes reminds Federalist readers of the U.S. Supreme Court’s past consideration of protests and sedition. The truth that dare not speak its name these days is that, with one…
Law & Public Safety
The Mayflower Compact’s enduring value
Joseph Loconte highlights at National Review Online the continuing relevance of a four-century-old document. In his famous Leviathan, the 17th-century theorist Thomas Hobbes argued that members of a political society…
Liberty
Will’s magnum opus emphasizes Locke
George Will‘s career-capping volume, The Conservative Sensibility, cites 17th-century English philosopher John Locke on 35 different pages. In addition to crediting Locke (along with Thomas Hobbes) as the starting point…
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Goldberg highlights Locke’s role
Jonah Goldberg‘s latest book, Suicide of the West, emphasizes 17th-century philosopher John Locke’s critical role in the advance of Western civilization. Adam Rubenstein explains in the latest issue of Commentary…
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Ensuring that government does its jobs well
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explains the benefits for our political debate of having a well-functioning bureaucracy. If we are to have a political exchange that amounts to something…
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“Paul Krugman may understand the Democratic Party better than most Democrats do.”
That’s the first sentence of a typically insightful piece that John Goodman recently posted at the Independent’s website: [Krugman] describes Democrats as a “coalition of social groups, from teachers’ unions to Planned…
Law & Public Safety
George Will invokes John Locke in considering future Supreme Court justices
Since four U.S. Supreme Court justices are at least 77 years old, the next president’s judicial philosophy could play an important rule in setting the high court’s course for decades…
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Barron’s editorial page editor examines new Nobel Prize winner
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s devotes his latest editorial commentary to key arguments from the latest Nobel Prize-winning economist, Angus Deaton. Sit down at your computer and buy his 2013 book…
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Williamson delves into politicians’ willful ignorance
Kevin Williamson‘s latest column at National Review Online explores the impact of politicians’ limited understanding of the issues they debate. On Tuesday, the president of these United States called for…
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Putting today’s political debates into perspective II
Complete the 1,000 pages in Alan Ryan’s recent two-volume history of political thought, On Politics, and you will have encountered a wide range of great — and not-so-great, Karl Marx…
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Now you have seen it all
A Theory of Justice: The Musical John Locke makes an appearance in the musical! From the press release: A Theory of Justice: The Musical! was written by Oxford University students…