Rachael Scarborough King

@rachael_scar

Rachael Scarborough King is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres.

John Locke and America’s Cult of Private Property

John Locke and America’s Cult of Private Property John Locke and America’s Cult of Private Property

Californians both voted to protect their private property rights and for Biden by a nearly two-to-one margin. How do those two things square?

Dec 24, 2020 / Rachael Scarborough King

A postal worker delivers mail in Harlem with a mask

The Radical Idea That Undergirds Our Postal System The Radical Idea That Undergirds Our Postal System

Victorian-era postal reform enshrined the principle that all letter writers were equal. Now that principle is under threat.

Apr 21, 2020 / Rachael Scarborough King

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