"Hobbes lived through England’s civil wars, and several wars of religion on the continent. Did these terrifying times prompt him to offer a cure that was worse than the disease? That is the gist of some virtuoso invective by Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British historian who died in 2003. Trevor-Roper, later Lord Dacre, summed up 'Leviathan' curtly: 'The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism.'"
The Economist reconsiders Thomas Hobbes.
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