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.
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, …
“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 …
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 …
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in late November 2024 at The New Digest. It is reproduced at Anchoring Truths with permission. We reproduce it here for timeliness in the current debates over immigration and the broader American constitutional order. The Trump administration’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border has echoes …
This episode features a webinar discussion on Natural Law and Women’s Rights with Erika Bachiochi, a legal scholar and current fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. This webinar was part of our ongoing series of legal education webinars with the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. Erika Bachiochi examines, both philosophically and historically, …
“We must recognize that we face a great contest. At stake is the understanding of personal identity that supplies moorings for the conservative virtues, and lies at the root of any distinctively Western tradition” (Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1907–1972) Cultural Marxism is the foundational paradigm for individuals endeavouring to center their identities on a humanist refabrication …
Returning Anchoring Truths Podcast guest Ilya Shapiro has written a new book Lawless: the Miseducation of America’s Elites that is part indictment of how the legal academy has succumbed to the worst excesses of illiberalism but also part memoir of his own experience at Georgetown Law at the hands of administrators who run the legal …
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the transmission of fire.” (Gustav Mahler, 1860 – 1911) The first official prayer in America’s newly-constituted Continental Congress took place in September 1774. Through this event, Congress firmly emphasized the religious ethos of America’s founding. In particular, primacy and honour was accorded to the 3,000 year-old Hebrew scriptures …
Video Recordings of the Norton Lectures Delivered by JWI Co-Director Prof. Hadley Arkes at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, October 8-9, 2024. Lecture I: The Enduring Rediscovery: The Polis as a Moral Association Lecture II: On Aristotle and Political Science as the “Architectonic Science” Lecture III: The American Founding and Natural Theology – And a …
