Our latest episode features a living legend and one of our oldest, closest friends at the James Wilson Institute, Prof. J. Budziszewski, on the occasion of the release of his new book Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy from Creed and Culture. In our conversation we will discuss …
One of the country’s foremost authorities on executive power, Prof. Saikrishna “Sai” Prakash, joins the Anchoring Truths Podcast to discuss his fascinating new book The Presidential Pardon. Prof. Prakash’s slim new tome from Harvard University Press delivers an engaging analysis of the Constitution’s Pardon Clause and its transformation over the centuries into a blunt and …
Many critics of the Supreme Court argue that the justices have disingenuously reverse-engineered a method of constitutional interpretation that yields conservative results in cases like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, and New York State Rifle and Pistol Assn. v. Bruen. But is this a fair critique of the Court? Or …
Join the Anchoring Truths Podcast for an in-depth dive into the career and jurisprudential mind of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The occasion for doing so is the publication in September of Justice Barrett’s new book, Listening to the Law. Anchoring Truths featured an exclusive review of the book by Michael A. Fragoso. Fragoso joins the …
Think back to when you were in high school or even middle school. Do you remember the history textbook you used? Perhaps that’s the problem: what passed for your reading material was so forgettable. Or if you do remember it, do you remember it being so ideologically slanted you were constantly fighting the story you …
Lawyer and legal scholar Timon Cline returns to the podcast to share his ambitious proposal to revisit and overturn the Supreme Court’s 1947 ruling on the Establishment Clause in Everson v. Board of Education. Drawing on his recent Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy article, “Everson Must Fall,” co-authored with Josh Hammer (James Wilson ’21) and Yoram Hazony, Cline explains …
Join us for this fourth episode in our new Natural Law Moment podcast! Hadley Arkes and Gerry Bradley take up the challenge of analyzing the Court’s decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case about a Tennessee law prohibiting sex-transition surgeries and treatments for minors. They drill down to the core question, whether these surgeries are …
Prof. Arkes’s article in the Texas Review of Law & Politics is hosted at Anchoring Truths with permission. Its original location may be found here.
What if I told you that hidden in the Constitution is a little-known provision that contains a gateway of sorts to a natural law, common-good inspired jurisprudence? And that this little treasure is hiding in plain sight, inexplicably ignored by jurists for decades? Well, there is such a section, and its contained in the opening …
We are beyond ecstatic to announce the launch of Natural Law Moment! Co-hosted by JWI’s team of Co-Directors, Professors Hadley Arkes and Gerry Bradley, Natural Law Moment is a bi-weekly podcast that will explore fundamental questions of law, politics, and culture. The legal world today is a tumultuous one, and to comprehend it, we must …
