Many thoughtful observers—including here at TAC—have warned that civil liberties, and perhaps freedom itself, could fall victim to the coronavirus. They have a point, but on the other hand, there’s a ...

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. Edited by Noel Malcolm. Oxford University Press; 1,832 pages; $375 and £195. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHEN Thomas Hobbes was maths tutor to the future English king, ...

Thomas Hobbes’s essay on the social contract is both a founding text of western thought and a masterpiece of wit and imagination According to the 17th-century historian and gossip John Aubrey, Thomas ...

Do not leave your home. Close your business. Stop shaking hands. You must wear a mask. Such instructions by a government, in the pre-pandemic era, would have appeared impossible. The power required to ...

During Avengers Infinity War, Thanos set out to collect all six Infinity Stones so he could snap away half of all living things at random. From the Mad Titan’s point of view, this genocidal action to ...