constitution

Lincoln’s Prophetic Statesmanship with Edward Erler

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In the pantheon of intellectual giants of modern conservatism, standing first among equals is the late professor Harry Jaffa. Jaffa, who influenced generations of students from his academic perch at Claremont Graduate University, might have been the 20th century’s greatest scholar on the thought of Abraham Lincoln. Jaffa, who along with JWI Founder & Co-Director Hadley

The Commodification of the American Family

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In a recent interview on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant podcast, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recounted how he and his husband came to acquire their two children. He described scrolling through “different lists” of babies, sorted by race, and remarked—almost in passing—that there was “a discount” on non-white children. The tone was casual, the moment

VIDEO: How the Justice System Lost its Soul – and How to Get It Back | Hadley Arkes

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Conor Gallagher interviews James Wilson Founder and Co-Director Hadley Arkes to discuss how the justice system lost its soul and how to get it back. In the interview, Arkes explores natural law vis-a-vis the American justice system, determinant Supreme Court cases, federalism, and related issues. For further information on the issues discussed during the interview,

Four Tests for Trump’s Judicial Nominees

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Editor’s Note: This essay originally appeared at TomKlingenstein.com. It is republished at Anchoring Truths with permission. In 2016, there was arguably no issue that was more important to Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign than the fate of the U.S. Supreme Court. Due to the February 2016 death of conservative judicial icon Antonin Scalia and the

Rahimi’s Natural Law Moment – Part 2

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In Part One of this essay, I argued that the Supreme Court’s opinion in United States v. Rahimi set the stage for lawyers and judges to incorporate natural law principles into their reasoning. In Rahimi, the Court appealed to the “principles underlying the Second Amendment” in order to ascertain the scope of its protections. Our

Contra Koppelman: What Mere Natural Law Was About

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Editors Note: This piece originally appeared in the Per Curiam section of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy as a response to a review by Prof. Andrew Koppelman of Hadley Arkes’s Mere Natural Law. It is reproduced here with permission from the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.

The Tragedy of “Progressive” Prosecution with Gerry Bradley

Delivered on November 1, 2024, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., we bring you the remarks of Professor Gerry Bradley from the Tragedy of “Progressive” Prosecution. Since George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, the U.S. has undergone a significant reevaluation of its criminal justice system and has moved towards a more “progressive”

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