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 ...

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is to go on display in his home town in Fife. The book by philosopher John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government, complete ...

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 between yesterday's twin posts on the Civil War and tragedy, I went back to re-read some John Locke, specifically Locke's third and fourth chapter from Two Treatises of Government. I thought about ...