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The Centrality of the Regime Question
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published at Steve Hayward’s Substack here. Anchoring Truths has been given permission by Hayward to reprint Arkes’s guest post. Angelo (Codevilla) and I were always together on the question of the centrality of the political regime as the touchstone in foreign policy. My first book with Princeton, coming out of …
Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West with Josh Hammer
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 …
A Violent Clash of Contrary Values – Part 2
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 …
A Violent Clash of Contrary Values – Part 1
“Before us there stands a last spiritual crisis that will involve all Europe and America” (Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, 1923) The West’s moral order originates from Judeo-Christian principles. America’s founding documents clearly reflect this fact. Upon these tenets are founded constitutionally protected human rights such as justice, mercy, equality and liberty. In …
Beyond Brennan’s Blooper
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published at Steve Hayward’s Substack here. Anchoring Truths has been given permission by Steve Hayward to reprint his article. The embarrassment of CBS News’s Margaret Brennan thinking that “weaponized” free speech was the road to Nazism tells us that the problem with the media today is not just that …
Contra Koppelman: What Mere Natural Law Was About
Editors Note: This piece originally appeared in the Per Curiam section of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy as a response to a review by Prof. Andrew Koppelman of Hadley Arkes’s Mere Natural Law. It is reproduced here with permission from the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.
Natural Law and Labor Law with Alex MacDonald
Alex MacDonald, a DC-based labor lawyer, touches on the historical roots of the right to work, the right’s connection with natural-law principles, and its return to modern jurisprudence. Informed by JWI Co-Director Hadley Arkes’s Mere Natural Law, Alex examines how that return could transform modern labor law, especially the concept of exclusive representation. This episode, …
Fabricated Identity and the Dilemma of Moral Authority – Part 2
“Modern history is the dialogue between two people: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god” (Nicolás Gómez Dávila, 1913) Editor’s Note: In Part 1, Dr. Haug examined the current secular attempt to construct personal identity beyond the bounds of the creation order. Here, in Part 2, he explores the humanist …
Natural Law and Government by Consent with Paul DeHart
For the latest Anchoring Truths Podcast, JWI Affiliated Scholar Paul DeHart joins for a fascinating in-depth discussion on themes from his latest book, The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent. DeHart is a distinguished professor of political science at Texas State University. Topics include the limits of the consent of …
