As we’ll see, the colonists were heirs of the Lockean tradition. As a result, freedom, reason, and revelation formed a conceptual trinity in the American Revolution. The powerful alliance of these ...

John Locke provided the point of origin for this viewpoint in his 1689 Second Treatise of Government. Locke contended that people form compacts creating civil governments to protect themselves ...

John Locke spent his life trying to understand the human person and spent several decades, especially the last one of his life, trying to better understand Christianity.

Everyone is shaped by something, by someone or by some influence… everyone. No one on the planet is a blank slate, a “tabula ...

I think we give John Locke too much credit (“John Locke’s Lesson for the Taliban” by Mustafa Aykol, Houses of Worship, May 13). The actual genius of Locke was that he took the political ...

In this declinist account, John Locke is often singled out as the lead villain. For Pierre Manent, Locke is the quintessential modern whose work is “central in every sense of the word” to ...