Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state.

The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion ’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey ...

As they describe themselves: The John Locke Foundation was created in 1990 as an independent, nonprofit think tank that would work “for truth, for freedom, and for the future of North Carolina.” The ...

Arguably no philosopher had a greater influence on America’s founding than John Locke, says Joseph Loconte, director of the Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Locke’s ideas about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our favorite castaways thus far have been on the island a few months, but for Lost fans, it's been more than 260 days since Jack's super-freaky flash-forward. As the Jan. 31 season premiere (finally) ...

John Tilden Locke, keyboard player and songwriter: born Los Angeles 25 September 1943; (one son); died Ojai, California 4 August 2006. Coming out of a Los Angeles scene which had already produced the ...

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 ...