"Modern Ways of Thinking about Politics Can without Undue Exaggeration Be Said to Begin with Hobbes"

"As for how Ryan squares this with the more 'liberal' thinkers who came after Hobbes, again the answer is context. Without Hobbes, there would have been no need for John Locke to react to him, and without Locke, no Paine or Jefferson, no Hegel or Marx."

In the Los Angeles Times, David L. Ulin reviews Alan Ryan's On Politics.