A 2026 case in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, covering New York City, presented a fascinating opportunity to discuss the intersection of Natural Law, international law, and contract law on our latest Anchoring Truths Podcast. Petersen Energia Inversora v. YPF (2nd Cir. opinion here) concerns how Argentina raised more than a billion dollars from …
Francisco Suarez, James Madison, St. Thomas Aquinas (left to right) After Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule published his op-ed Beyond Originalism in 2020, the conservative legal movement engaged itself once more in a fierce debate about originalism, legal positivism, civil libertarianism, public space neutrality, and the limits of law. On one hand, post-war conservatives and …
As we continue our commemoration of America 250, we’re inspired to present a variety of different celebrations of our country. In that spirit, we are honored to welcome on the show Dr. Matthew Mehan of Hillsdale College, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Government at the Van Andel Graduate School in Washington, D.C. A literary …
Past Anchoring Truths Podcast episodes have been devoted to the promise of AI in the legal profession and beyond. Today, we’ll be discussing more of the perils of that technology with Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds. He’s the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and the mind behind the legendary Instapundit …
This week’s Anchoring Truths Podcast is a roundtable discussion of the James Wilson Institute’s travels around the country to law school campuses from February-April. JWI Founder & Co-Director Hadley Arkes and Programs Director Daniel Osborne join host Garrett Snedeker to describe what they saw from law students at four different campuses during JWI’s law school …
The United States Supreme Court recently released its opinion in Chiles v. Salazar. The case dealt with a challenge to a Colorado law that prevents therapists from “engaging in ‘conversion therapy’ with minors . . . defining the term to include ‘any practice or treatment . . . that attempts . . . to change …
Join Natural Law Moment for the next installment of a look back into the lives of our co-hosts Profs. Arkes and Bradley before they became the storied teachers they would become. This latest episode focuses on Hadley Arkes’s intellectual formation at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s as a graduate student of the legendary philosopher …
Our latest episode features a living legend and one of our oldest, closest friends at the James Wilson Institute, Prof. J. Budziszewski, on the occasion of the release of his new book Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy from Creed and Culture. In our conversation we will discuss …
Vice President JD Vance is one of the most influential Republicans in America. But unlike many politicians, he is a public intellectual. Long before holding office, he was a prolific writer and speaker, wrestling with the core issues facing conservatism in America. Vance has emerged to be in many ways the intellectual synthesizer of various …
