Honest Common Sense

(Image credit: Civil Service College) In 1994, then UK prime minister John Major appointed a senior judge named Michael Nolan as chair of th...

(Image credit: Giammarco Boscaro, Unsplash) Recently, I discussed the ideas of two thinkers of the past, who have greatly influenced me: Joh...

  This is the third in a set of short essays about political philosophers who have influenced the development of, and ways of thinking about...

  Last week, I wrote about John Locke, the 17 th -century father of the Enlightenment, and his forward-looking ideas on political philosophy...

Today, I’m going to try to answer two simple-sounding, but deep, questions. One, why do we need government? And two, what can, and should, w...