The Reading Room
On Two Treatises of Government
If you want to read the argument the Declaration of Independence is built on, nearly sentence for sentence, read Locke.
On Two Treatises of Government
If you want to read the argument the Declaration of Independence is built on, nearly sentence for sentence, read Locke.
On The Spirit of the Laws
Three branches of government, separated so that no single hand holds all the power: the idea is so woven into how Americans imagine government that it can feel like a...
On The Spirit of the Laws
Three branches of government, separated so that no single hand holds all the power: the idea is so woven into how Americans imagine government that it can feel like a...
On A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
An age was busy declaring the rights of man, and Mary Wollstonecraft asked the obvious next question that almost no one was willing to hear: what about the rights of...
On A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
An age was busy declaring the rights of man, and Mary Wollstonecraft asked the obvious next question that almost no one was willing to hear: what about the rights of...
On Common Sense
Common Sense made independence thinkable to ordinary people, and it did so because Thomas Paine wrote the way they spoke.
On Common Sense
Common Sense made independence thinkable to ordinary people, and it did so because Thomas Paine wrote the way they spoke.
On Rights of Man
If Common Sense made Paine the voice of the American Revolution, Rights of Man made him the most dangerous writer in Britain.
On Rights of Man
If Common Sense made Paine the voice of the American Revolution, Rights of Man made him the most dangerous writer in Britain.