The American experiment, inspired by Locke’s writings, would function in the model of Biblical Israel, balancing the gift of human rationality with belief in the grace of Heaven.

Do Property Rights Still Exist in British Columbia?” Yet it’s not as if Canadian governments were doing a great job of ...

How are the Millers going to defend Western civilization if they don't know the name of its defining philosophy?

Today on the right, there are plenty of folks who call themselves conservatives but are far from the historical definition.

For hundreds of years, thinkers have tried to answer this problem by attempting to understand the origin of laws and rights that would pre-​date not only the state, but also societies themselves. One ...

Part of the concept of property rights is that one is free to do as one wants with one’s property as long as that doesn’t run ...

Democracy was built to stop men like him The post The Sun King Is Back—and His Name Is Trump first appeared on The Walrus.

If you want to know a political leader’s governing philosophy, you could cut through a lot of bluster by just asking them who their guy is: John Locke or Thomas Hobbes? Anyone who’s taken Poli Sci 101 ...

Conventional wisdom tells us the liberal democracies are the most peace-loving nations. But the record tells us something ...

THE BBC’s production of its six-part series Waiting For The Out (★★☆☆☆) seems to address not only its past failings in terms of prison series but also to further the new obsession with working-class ...

I don’t give a shit what you call it,” US Vice President JD Vance replied last year to suggestions that killing Venezuelan civilians without any due process would be described a war crime. That ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the faith and politics that went into writing the Declaration of ...