Over the course of the last five years, I have been devoting my Christmas article to authors or topics that touch upon the birth of Jesus of Nazareth and are relevant to the free society and a free ...

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 ...

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 ...

In later seasons, we met the person responsible for putting John Locke on permanent tragic figure duty. But in Season One, we were provided with a look at how that tragic status leads him to 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 ...

Here lies John Locke, and in more ways than one. In fact, in last night’s Now the season has REALLY begun episode of Lost, ”The Substitute,” we were given three different John Lockes. (Maybe even four ...

Last night’s Lost was an hour-long festival of Locke, with a special guest appearance from the World’s Biggest Kid (and I don’t mean whiny Jack). Let’s talk about it after the cut. I’ve been familiar ...

Rediscovered papers thought to record the memories of a longstanding friend say the ‘father of liberalism’ plagiarised and lied about never reading Thomas Hobbes Guy Dammann: Nick Clegg may be a Locke ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...