I think we give John Locke too much credit (“John Locke’s Lesson for the Taliban” by Mustafa Aykol, Houses of Worship, May 13). The actual genius of Locke was that he took the political ideas of the ...

In the summer of 1704, English philosopher John Locke began writing a response to a critic of his controversial treatise on religious freedom, A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). It was, in fact, ...