Hobbes
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"It's like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon."
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Some historians find its origins in the secular individualism of the 18th-century Enlightenment, or in the earlier political thought of John Locke or Thomas Hobbes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024
In the first ‘Sex and the City’ movie, released in 2008, Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda Hobbes exasperatedly acknowledges the trend: “That’s it?!” she says, aghast as the costume options in a store.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
Earlier that year Joseph Glanvill published his The Vanity of Dogmatizing, in which he criticized Hobbes but praised Digby, in the process taking over his use of the phrase ‘matter of fact’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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