Josh Hammer returns to the Anchoring Truths Podcast for a discussion of his first book Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. The book is a powerful, next-generation manifesto declaring that the future prosperity and ultimate fate of Western civilization is dependent upon the security and thriving …
Editor’s Note: In Part 1 of this two-part feature, Dr. Nils Haug describes how the moral and intellectual foundations of the Torah with the Quaran and various sayings of the Prophet Muhammed from the Hadith clash in violent ways. In Part 2, Dr. Haug focuses on why this clash represents one of the gravest tests …
Jana Paley’s final installment in her visit to Israel in the wake of the October 7 attacks
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 …
Daily life in Jerusalem as Israel recovers from the events of October 7, 2023
An encounter with two female members of the Israeli Defense Force gives Jana Paley a new view of the IDF in this latest installment of “Evil Up Close: Diaries of Wartime.”
Image by Leo Li from Flickr. 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 …
Hadley Arkes introduces a new series from friend of the Institute, Jana Paley.
The presidents of three prestigious Ivy League Universities testify before the House Committee, and as a result of this discussion, Magill resigns.
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 …
