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In the history of political thought

David Eickhoff (Freiburg): The Operation Called Suspension of Judgement in the History of Political Thought. For the Encyclopedia of Political Thought, here is the entry on the General Will by David Lay Williams. From the International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, here is the entry on the “Historical Development of Citizenship” by Richard Bellamy. The introduction to Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton by Hilary Gatti. How to think like Edmund Burke: Iain Hampsher-Monk on debating the philosopher’s complex legacy. David Lay Williams reviews Rousseau’s Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse by Frederick Neuhouser and The Free Animal: Rousseau on Free Will and Human Nature by Lee MacLean. The introduction to Creolizing Rousseau, ed. Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts. A review of Freedom as Marronage by Neil Roberts (and an excerpt). Andreas Follesdal on Machiavelli at 500: From cynic to vigilant supporter of international law. Did Christianity create liberalism? Samuel Moyn reviews Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop (and more). Locke against freedom: John Locke’s classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom — it’s a defense of expropriation and enslavement. David Lay Williams reviews Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory by Eric Lee Goodfield.