This Christmas, I focus on John Locke (1632-1704), one of the most celebrated champions of human liberty. George Santayana (1863-1952), the noted philosopher, started a lecture by saying that a ...

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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.

Inspired by the recent discovery of several unknown books from John Locke’s personal library by Cambridge scholar Felix Waldmann, Craig Walmsley set out to see if there were any unpublished ...

Anne McElvoy tours 300 years of British liberalism, starting with dissident philosopher John Locke, whose opposition to arbitrary power drove him into exile - but still shapes us. Show more Anne ...