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John Locke

A comic strip about John Locke | Illustration: Peter Bagge

Comics

Comic: It's America's Founding Grandfather, John Locke

Decades after his death, the English philosopher's ideas helped shape the American republic.

Peter Bagge | 1.19.2025 6:00 AM

featurepropertyrights | Illustration: Denis Pobytov/iStock

Space

Space Is an Opportunity To Rethink Property Rights

Here's what could happen when John Locke and Henry George go to the moon.

Rebecca Lowe | 11.15.2022 8:00 AM

culture | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: Public domain

Philosophy

Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.

Jonathan Rauch | 7.24.2021 6:00 AM

culture | Joanna Andreasson. Photos: Wikipedia

Frederick Douglass

How Frederick Douglass Destroyed John C. Calhoun With the Power of John Locke

Armed with the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the far-reaching guarantees of liberty and equality that they contained, Douglass took the fight directly to the slaveholders.

Damon Root | 11.14.2020 6:00 AM

Screen Shot 2020-04-02 at 12.58.24 PM | Screenshot via Flocabulary

Education

This Rap-Based School Curriculum Is Teaching Kids That John Locke Was Cool Like Che Guevara

The Cuban revolutionary was not a big fan of life, liberty, and property.

Robby Soave | 4.2.2020 1:18 PM

Large image for longform feature pages. | Public Domain

History

Dropouts Built America

When the going gets tough, the tough start something better.

Jesse Walker | 12.29.2018 6:00 AM

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