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 […]
John Locke
The Author’s Corner with Claire Arcenas
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?
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 Englandās greatest philosophers, an Enlightenment thinker known as […]