The 17th-century philosopher John Locke heavily influenced the American founding. The Heritage Foundation’s Joseph Loconte explains what advice Locke might have for America today.

John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist whose ideas helped lay the foundation for the Enlightenment. Locke studied at Oxford and pursued medicine as a fellow at ...

One of these biographers, Howard R. Penniman (1916-1995), wrote that Locke’s book The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695) and still more his Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul ...

I n the summer of 1704, English philosopher John Locke began writing a response to a critic of his controversial treatise on religious freedom, A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). It was, in ...

Over a year ago, French posted a biblical analysis of self-defense and discussed John Locke’s views, quoting from a long 2008 blog post of mine. As an atheist myself, I have only a modest ...

I am willing to wager my house that not one of my son’s seventh-grade classmates could identify John Locke in a photo. I am then willing to let that wager ride on another gamble that less than ...

At this stage of “Lost,””%20mystery no one actually believed that John Locke would remain dead, but still, it’s satisfying to see him alive again. That is, alive in the way that you and I ...