Locke

Here’s a current cliché I want to drive a stake through: “I have so much on my plate.” I’ve heard it so often in recent years that I’ve taken to…

To most Americans, metaphysics, if they give any thought to the subject at all, appears as it did to the first pragmatist philosopher, William James: “As in the night all…

Our times require the reexamination of first principles. Clinging to the premises of John Locke, for example, which formed the basis of the oldest democracy, the United States, simply won’t…