Devotees of the Anchoring Truths Podcast are no doubt aware that interest in the moral foundations of law has reached a fever pitch among those in the conservative legal movement. Culture-shaping decisions of the Supreme Court such as in Bostock and Dobbs have focused the attention of lawyers, judges, and scholars to the fact that …
For the second episode of Natural Law Moment, join Professors Hadley Arkes and Gerry Bradley as they examine the current state of the Pro-Life movement in the United States. Longtime leaders in the movement, Professors Arkes and Bradley have played key roles in shaping the intellectual arguments opposing abortion. Yet now, after the Dobbs decision from 2022, …
We Americans are, indeed, “less pro-life than many believed, particularly if we understand the term ‘pro-life’ to include the willingness of people who would never have an abortion themselves to legally deny other women the right.” Ample proof of the fact would include the sad results of recent state referenda, as well as the unwillingness of …
Anchoring Truths Co-Fouder Hadley Arkes discusses his groundbreaking book, Mere Natural Law, on the Simple Truth podcast with host Jim Havens. On this Simple Truths episode, Prof. Arkes covers Mere Natural Law‘s main arguments and explains the need for originalism to be grounded in the framework of objective morality.
Could it possibly be the best of times as well as the worst of times for the pro-life movement? Following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, immediate celebration met the harsh realities of how divided the country remains on abortion. The political reaction to the Dobbs decision, with Blue States in particular enshrining …
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 …
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, …
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 …
He can do more than, as John Roberts would have him doing, in affirming the law of non-contradiction.
