JWI Founder & Co-Director as well as Anchoring Truths Founder Hadley Arkes joined Lutheran Public Radio’s Issues Etc. Show on March 4, 2024 for a discussion of his new article from The Federalist on refocusing Republican attention on abortion. Audio from Issues Etc.
Anchoring Truths is proud to bring you Jana Paley’s Diaries from Wartime, a multipart account of her experience in Israel in the wake of the attacks by Hamas in October 2023. Anchoring Truths Co-Founder Hadley Arkes, Paley’s one-time professor at Amherst College, provides a preface to this multipart series here. December 18, 2023 Jerusalem, Israel …
For the first podcast episode of 2024, Prof. W. B. “Bill” Allen joins JWI Founder & Director Hadley Arkes and Anchoring Truths Podcast host Garrett Snedeker to discuss Allen’s new translation of Montesquieu’s most famous work, The Spirit of the Laws. (from Anthem Press) They discussed the influence of Natural Law on Montesquieu’s political thought, …
Professor Hadley Arkes was featured on the Cross & Gavel podcast of the Christian Legal Society. In an episode recorded in January 2024, he discussed his book, Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution. Professor Arkes is the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College …
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 …
JWI Founder & Co-Director Hadley Arkes joined by Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit as well as Prof. Randy Barnett of Georgetown University Law Center discussed Prof. Arkes’s book Mere Natural Law on Nov. 10, 2023 at the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention. Prof. Robert George of Princeton …
In reviewing “Mere Natural Law,” scholar Jordan Perkins argues that it is necessary that legal cognition be infused with moral reasoning.
This is latest installment of an ongoing interview series with First Things contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Hadley Arkes joins the podcast to discuss his new book Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution. The conversation is embedded above. For your long-term convenience, follow this podcast on SoundCloud or subscribe via iTunes or Stitcher.
In this article, Phillip Muñoz suggests how we can read the religious free exercise and establishment clauses in light of the Constitution’s original design and purposes, being situated properly in a tradition of natural law and rights.
Prof. Hadley Arkes recently appeared on Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler, where the two discussed the principles animating Prof. Arkes’s latest book, Mere Natural Law.
