Hobbes and Locke were responding even more directly to the political strife and violence close to home, specifically the English civil wars of the mid-17th century, during which a king was ...

Given ancient traditions, and contemporary resentments of America’s global ascendancy, it is fanciful to think that the priest who lives here, hard by Lake Michigan, might one day be summoned… ...

And as Hobbes observed, and the Post confirms, the state of nature is a brutal place: Keith Green, 37, said he's heard too many scary stories to slip into a spot someone has blocked off.

The Constitution of the United States did not spring fully formed in Philadelphia in the 18th century. It was the product — possibly the finest product — of the Enlightenment, which in turn was the ...