In a way, reading The Indispensable Right[1] by Professor Jonathan Turley is like encountering a prophet from the Old Testament. The prophets were messengers, sent by God, to call His people back to Him after having gone astray; they were tasked with reminding Israel of the covenant by recounting the manifest sins and offences by …
In light of the tragic killing of Charlie Kirk, the culture of American Campuses and Free Speech – which Kirk fought so hard for – are more relevant than ever. Profs. Hadley Arkes & Justin Dyer share a discussion of a new way to look at free speech, its purpose, and the best way to …
Guest Ben Weingarten joins host Garrett Snedeker to document how public and private actors (government, academia, media, and tech) have acted to curtail our natural right to speak freely in a concerted effort that Weingarten calls “The Censorship Industrial Complex.” They discuss the recent Supreme Court decision in Murthy v. Missouri as well as how the …
This essay was adapted from a speech delivered at the 2024 National Conservatism Conference. All views are the author’s. As I’ve always seen it, part of being a conservative is acknowledging the traditions you were raised in. And for me, one of those traditions was the conservative legal movement. I was taught, within that tradition, that one …
Jeffrey Bristol W’24 argues that content-neutral restrictions on speech diminish the substantive roots of our law that are reflective of ordered liberty.
Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Natural Law reasoning definitively identifies time, place, and manner restrictions as the proper response to this latest wave of campus protests. The Natural Law in fact points to a surprisingly definite answer, considering how often Natural Law is criticized for its indeterminacy. This resolution is obscured by the human tendency to …
Photo by Wiki Commons The following statement was made by Professor Hadley Arkes, JWI Founder and Co-Director, as a follow-up to an essay he wrote in Public Discourse regarding a comprehensive assessment of the “free speech” understanding that has influenced and conditioned the derisive actions we see occurring on campuses today. The ongoing eruptions over …
It is precious to see so many college administrators, deans, and presidents now honing “principled,” absolutist commitments to freedom of speech on their campuses. When campuses were hosting Dennis Prager, Charles Murray, Charlie Kirk, or Riley Gaines, or even federal appellate court judges, the messages that used to ban or chase them off campus were “hate …
CRCD Executive Director Trey Dimsdale hopes that a focus on religious liberty protections in the states can “play a significant role in rekindling popular and political interest in federalism and republicanism for the sake of advancing and securing the liberty to which all Americans are entitled.”
Hadley Arkes shares his own experience with student protests at Stanford Law and asks how its administration will respond to the next incident.
