Join host Garrett Snedeker and appellate litigator Edward “Ed” Wenger to discuss a recent decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed limits on gun magazine capacity within the nation’s capital. The court affirmed a lower court’s opinion that “extra large capacity magazines” could be prohibited within city limits, but Judge Justin Walker …
Join Anchoring Truths Podcast host Garrett Snedeker and journalist Conn Carroll for an exciting discussion about Carroll’s new book Sex and the Citizen and the importance of marriage. In Sex and the Citizen, Conn Carroll shows how the assault on marriage conducted by cultural and political elites is undermining the very foundations of our democracy. Carroll’s …
The Supreme Court deserves some additional praise for its decision resolving a circuit split on a fine point of administrative law in Corner Post from its most recent term. Without acknowledging as much, the majority in Corner Post affirmed an elementary proposition of moral and legal justice that had fallen by the wayside. In one of his Essays on …
Western society faces unprecedented social turmoil. This situation has arisen primarily through the political and legal imposition on society of aberrant identity ideologies in the form of race, sex-gender, and other humanist-derived tribalist fabrications. These construals are contrary to the natural order and the common good of all. Sociologist Marc Eichenbaum frames the social friction …
In this episode, JWI Affiliated Scholar Josh Craddock joins Conservative Conversations’ host Tom Sarrouf (a former JWI intern) for a thought-provoking conversation hosted in collaboration with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Together, they explore the complex interplay between religion and law, how civic friendship shapes our public life, and the role of the law as …
Editor’s Note: National Review has granted Anchoring Truths permission to reprint a 2023 review by Prof. Joel Alicea of Mere Natural Law by JWI Founder & Co-Director Hadley Arkes, along with Prof. Arkes’s response to Prof. Alicea. Please find Prof. Arkes’s response below, originally titled in National Review as “The Nature of the Law.” How can …
Editor’s Note: National Review has granted Anchoring Truths permission to reprint a 2023 review by Prof. Joel Alicea of Mere Natural Law by JWI Founder & Co-Director Hadley Arkes, along with Prof. Arkes’s response to Prof. Alicea. Please find Prof. Alicea’s review in full below. Is originalism a morally empty jurisprudence? For decades, various scholars working …
Reviewing Allen C. Guelzo, Our Ancient Faith – Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024) and Harold Holzer, Brought Forth On This Continent – Abraham Lincoln And American Immigration (Dutton, 2024) The character, career and enduring legacy of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, continue to fascinate and inspire both scholars and the …
Join JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and Intern Catherine Hickam for a discussion with Prof. Michael Pakaluk about Natural Law and the traditional Thomistic and New Natural Law perspectives. Michael Pakaluk is the Ordinary Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University, where he …
Anchoring Truths co-founder Garrett Snedeker joined hosts Tom Sarrouf (former JWI Intern) and Marlo Slayback for an episode of Conservative Conversations, a production of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Snedeker dives deep into the pressing legal and political issues shaping the conservative movement today following the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s OT 2023 term, including discussions of Trump v. U.S., Loper Bright/Relentless, and the Court’s standing doctrine among other subjects.
