John Locke has been widely understood to hold that belief is under one’s direct control. This doxastic voluntarism appears to be implicit in his evidentialism, his doxastic moralism, and his ...

One way to sum up postwar American politics is to say that conservatives try to stop liberals from breaking the liberals’ own rules. The “rules” in this formulation are those of liberalism in the ...

One day when I was in graduate school, I found myself knee-deep in National Union Catalogs (a kind of old-school WorldCat) at the Hoover Institution Library. I had gone in search of nineteenth-century ...

John Locke has a new article out, although he died in 1704. When England’s King Charles II discovered a failed 1683 assassination plot against himself and his brother, he beheaded the plotters and ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. Arguably no philosopher had a greater influence ...

The panel, “Foundations of a Right to Privacy,” was the first of several discussions at a privacy conference at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The speakers ...

A Medical Biography, with an Edition of the Medical Notes in his Journals. By Kenneth Dewhurst. Pp. xii + 331 + 11 plates. (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963.) 42s. Vide Bertrand, ...

Over the course of the last five years, I have been devoting my Christmas article to authors or topics that touch upon the birth of Jesus of Nazareth and are relevant to the free society and a free ...

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, colonial leaders enlisted several authoritative sources in their complaints against King George and the British Parliament: the Bible, the English ...