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John Locke

When it comes to religious history and public theology, J.D. Vance is “in over his head.”

John Fea   |  February 14, 2025

Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter gives the Vice President of the United States a history lesson and a lesson in historical thinking. Vice President JD Vance spoke at theĀ International Religious Freedom SummitĀ last week. There was much in […]

The Author’s Corner with Claire Arcenas

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 1, 2022

Claire Arcenas is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montana. This interview is based on her new book, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write America’s […]

Was John Locke a vain, lazy, and pompous plagiarist?

John Fea   |  June 29, 2021

A new document has emerged that paints the father of liberalism in a less than flattering light. Here is Alison Flood at The Guardian: John Locke is regarded today as one of England’s greatest philosophers, an Enlightenment thinker known as […]