His stories have featured on Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, among others. John Locke was a leading philosopher and political theorist. His ideas helped lay the foundation for both the ...

John Locke advocated for a world based on expropriation, enslavement, and serfdom. Our summer issue examines the role of speculation in contemporary capitalism. Click here to subscribe. A few months ...

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Another common objection to Locke’s labor theory of property titles has to do with what A. John Simmons called “the boundary problem” In The Lockean Theory of Rights (Princeton, 1992, p. 268), Simmons ...

Implicating Locke in the causes of slavery and colonialism has cast a shadow over Western liberalism, and indeed democracy itself. John Locke by Godfrey Kneller (c1697). Courtesy Hermitage ...

Concerned about the moral laxity of Restoration England, the wealthy landowner and politician Edward Clarke turned to his lifelong friend John Locke for advice about how to raise his son.

Philosopher John Locke, along with thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes, is often blamed by Christian social ethicists for misappropriating the natural law tradition, articulating ...

Nurana Rajabova considers why, according to John Locke, you continue to be you. Does the self reside in the soul, in the body, or in some combination of both? It’s a question philosophers have long ...