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The “Illegitimate” Supreme Court? Sorting Myth from Reality

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Join Natural Law Moment’s hosts Hadley Arkes and Gerry Bradley for a pointed discussion of the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary in American public life. Since the confirmation of three Supreme Court justices appointed by President Trump, progressives have publicly questioned the legitimacy of the Court, threatening to pack it beyond nine members. Yet

Parental Rights from the Natural Law Tradition to Skrmetti and Mahmoud: Foundations and Applications with Professor Melissa Moschella

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Professor Melissa Moschella of the University of Notre Dame joins us to discuss the contents of her recently published book titled, “⁠Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing⁠.” A rich yet cogent articulation of New Natural Law Theory (NNLT), Moschella’s work has been described as “the clearest, most readable exposition and defense of contemporary natural law theory yet to

The Golden Thread with Prof. Allen Guelzo

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Think back to when you were in high school or even middle school. Do you remember the history textbook you used? Perhaps that’s the problem: what passed for your reading material was so forgettable. Or if you do remember it, do you remember it being so ideologically slanted you were constantly fighting the story you

Our Natural Law Moment(s) with Dennis Wieboldt

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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

The Preamble, Aristotle, and the Common Good

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What if I told you that hidden in the Constitution is a little-known provision that contains a gateway of sorts to a natural law, common-good inspired jurisprudence? And that this little treasure is hiding in plain sight, inexplicably ignored by jurists for decades? Well, there is such a section, and its contained in the opening

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