John Locke

August 28, 2018|civility, Desiderius Erasmus, John Locke, Roger Williams, speech codes, Teresa Bejan, Thomas Hobbes, Toleration

“All Must Be Tolerated”: Teresa Bejan’s Mere Civility, Part II

by M. Anthony Mills|8 Comments

Statue of Roger Williams in Prospect Terrace Park, Providence, Rhode Island (Richard Cavallieri/Shutterstock.com).

Modern calls for civility often hearken to a golden age of liberal free speech, but this is a mistake.

August 27, 2018|civility, Desiderius Erasmus, John Locke, Roger Williams, speech codes, Teresa Bejan, Thomas Hobbes, Toleration

“All Must Be Tolerated”: Teresa Bejan’s Mere Civility, Part I

by M. Anthony Mills|8 Comments

Statue of Roger Williams in Prospect Terrace Park, Providence, Rhode Island (Richard Cavallieri/Shutterstock.com).

Hobbes and Locke offer echoes of standard liberal approaches to civility, but Roger Williams may offer a better sort of civility.

June 5, 2018|D.C. Schindler, John Locke, Leo Strauss, Liberty, metaphysics

Metaphysics as Politics?: D.C. Schindler on Locke and Liberalism

by Paul Seaton|4 Comments

D.C. Schindler's Freedom from Reality makes the startling claim that John Locke and his modern inheritors offer a us demonic kind of liberty.

May 24, 2018|Catholic Social Thought, Economic growth, Equality, John Locke, Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones, Pope Francis, Poverty

Equality versus Feeding the Hungry

by James R. Rogers|17 Comments

People walking along an open sewer in an unidentified African town (John Wollworth/Shutterstock.com).

It is simply too pat to point to bare economic inequality and decry it as necessarily unjust: pursuing equality can often harm growth.

May 10, 2018|American Founding, Declaration of Independence, Donald Trump, Economic growth, Enlightenment, John Locke, Liberalism, Rousseau, Suicide of the West

Jonah Goldberg’s Soulless Case for Liberty

by Richard M. Reinsch II|26 Comments

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Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West introduces us to a (mostly) soulless rhetoric of liberty.

April 17, 2018|Free Speech, John Locke, Mere Civility, Political Correctness, Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes

The Solid Ground of Mere Civility: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan

by Teresa M. Bejan|4 Comments

A painting by Alonzo Chappel, shows a group of Native Americans (possibly the Narragansett) as they offer the pipe of peace to Roger Williams, the future founder of Rhode Island.

Teresa Bejan discusses with us how early modern debates over religious toleration are an example of how we can disagree well.

April 16, 2018|John C. Calhoun's Theory of Republicanism, John G. Grove, John Locke, Missouri Crisis, Nullification, Slavery

John C. Calhoun, Madisonian Manqué

by Thomas W. Merrill|3 Comments

His institutional innovations were geared toward preserving slavery.

April 12, 2018|Administrative State, Chevron deference, John Locke, judicial activism, Judicial Review

Chevron Bias, Illustrated by Statistics

by Philip Hamburger|6 Comments

Chevron interferes with independent judicial judgment, and Christopher Walker calls it nonpartisanship.

January 17, 2018|Conservatives, Gordon Wood, John Adams, John Locke, natural equality, natural inequality, Progressives, Thomas Jefferson

The Divide Between Jefferson and Adams on Human Nature Is Ours Too

by John O. McGinnis|8 Comments

Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson review a draft of the Declaration of Independence, by J.L.G. Ferris. From a 1909 litho by Wolf & Co.

Why has Thomas Jefferson become the progressives' favorite founder?

December 26, 2017|Abraham Lincoln, Democratic Religion from Locke to Obama, Giorgi Areshidze, Historicism, John Locke, Jürgen Habermas, Martin Luther King, Natural Right