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Feb 12, 2024 - Hadley Arkes shares his own experience with student protests at Stanford Law and asks how its administration will respond to the next incident.
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Feb 12, 2024 - Hadley Arkes reflects on the year since the overturning of "Roe v. Wade" and unpacks the next steps a brave judge could take in protecting the...
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May 21, 2025 - In a recent interview on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant podcast, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recounted how he and his husband came to acquire...
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Feb 12, 2024 - Roe is, practically speaking, already dead — regardless of what the Court decides to do in Dobbs.
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Apr 3, 2025 - Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared as an entry in a multi-part series hosted by the New Civil Liberties Alliance reflecting on "how bad...
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Oct 17, 2025 - Following the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Loper Bright/Relentless, the battle over agency deference has moved to the lower courts. This essay...
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Feb 12, 2024 - James Poulos analyzes the differences between the Western and the rising Chinese approaches to technology and how Natural Law just might make up the difference.
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Feb 12, 2024 - Professor Philip Hamburger takes aim at the myriad ways in which many statutes and regulations trade the Constitution’s structural protections of liberty for...
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Feb 12, 2024 - JWI Affiliated Scholar Justin Dyer criticizes Justice Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case....
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Feb 12, 2024 - Where does Harry Jaffa's account of Natural Law differ from Thomas Aquinas’s, if at all, and how can that inform the New Right.
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Mar 12, 2024 - Gerry Bradley Responds to Daniel Dreisbach's "Reading the Bible with the Founders"
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Feb 12, 2024 - CRCD Executive Director Trey Dimsdale hopes that a focus on religious liberty protections in the states can "play a significant role in rekindling popular...
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Feb 12, 2024 - JWI Affiliated Scholar Daniel Mark warns that a double standard cannot form that removes the promise of equal protection of the law from Catholic institutions.
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Feb 12, 2024 - We know that the free speech clause of the First Amendment protects us from government censorship. But suppose someone raises the question, “What’s the...
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May 2, 2025 - We were alerted last week by several redoubtable alumni of our James Wilson Fellowship to a fine concurring opinion by Chief Justice James “Jimmy”...
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May 30, 2024 - Anchoring Truths is proud to bring you Jana Paley's Diaries from Wartime, a multipart account of her experience in Israel in the wake of the attacks by...
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Dec 17, 2024 - “In the middle of the journey of life, I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight-way was lost.” (Alighieri Dante, 1265 – 1321) Reflecting on...
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/progressive-democracy-and-the-totalitarian-temptation/
Apr 23, 2025 - Editor's note: Anchoring Truths has been given permission by Encounter Books and Daniel Mahoney to republish this excerpt from Mahoney's book The...
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Apr 3, 2025 - The Green Trade Network, coordinated by IEEP, is organising the first Green Trade Day in April.
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/2025/11/06/can-the-president-remove-anyone-from-the-administrative-state-featuring-mark-chenoweth/
Nov 6, 2025 - About one month remains until the Supreme Court’s oral argument in one of the most explosive cases of this term, Trump v. Slaughter. This is the case over...
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Oct 3, 2024 - 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...
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Feb 12, 2024 - Prof. Arkes reflects on his work crafting the Born Alive Act and takes some time to analyze the latest version of the Act, to him the best ever.
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Oct 1, 2024 - Judge Janice Rogers Brown delivers stirring remarks on the future of the country and the role of the judge upon receiving the 2nd JWI Leadership & Law...
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Feb 12, 2024 - After the U.S. Supreme Court released its ruling in Dobbs, many progressives seemed far more upset about Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence than Justice...
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Apr 26, 2024 - Photo by Wiki Commons The following statement was made by Professor Hadley Arkes, JWI Founder and Co-Director, as a follow-up to an essay he wrote in Public...
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Feb 12, 2024 - Hal R. Arkes's testimony on a paradigmatic effort to remove mandated DEI from higher ed in one state
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Apr 17, 2025 - In Part One of this essay, I argued that the Supreme Court’s opinion in United States v. Rahimi set the stage for lawyers and judges to incorporate natural...
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Jul 11, 2024 - Introduction "Common good constitutionalism” is chiefly a criticism of what might be helpfully described as “mainstream” legal conservatism—the...
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Feb 12, 2024 - James Wilson Institute Founder Hadley Arkes writes for Public Discourse about the future of the pro-life movement after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health...
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Feb 20, 2025 - Editor's Note: This piece was originally published at Steve Hayward's Substack here. Anchoring Truths has been given permission by Steve Hayward to...
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May 4, 2025 - In the Wall Street Journal, law professor Elizabeth Price Foley argues that the Supreme Court can eliminate nationwide injunctions by amending Federal Rule of...
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Oct 18, 2024 - 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...
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Feb 12, 2024 - Prof. Jonathan Gienapp explains how Wilson's integrated view of law grounds the harmony of law and philosophy that he argued for in the...
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Mar 1, 2024 - Hadley Arkes introduces a new series from friend of the Institute, Jana Paley.
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Jan 10, 2025 - “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the transmission of fire.” (Gustav Mahler, 1860 – 1911) The first official prayer in America’s...
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Sep 16, 2025 - Lawyer Michael A. Fragoso reviews Justice Amy Coney Barrett's new book
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Apr 8, 2025 - “Architecture is bound to situation. Unlike music, painting, sculpture, film, and literature, a construction (non-mobile) is intertwined with the...
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Jul 24, 2024 - This essay was adapted from a speech delivered at the 2024 National Conservatism Conference. All views are the author’s. As I’ve always seen it, part of...
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Dec 19, 2024 - Garrett Snedeker, Anchoring Truths Co-Founder & JWI Deputy Director Bad Therapy, by Abigail Shrier Shrier's powerful follow-up book to her 2020...
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Feb 11, 2025 - 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....
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Feb 12, 2024 - "The pitfall of the argument in favor of parents’ rights is that it makes the decision for children to be exposed to information about sexual activity...
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Aug 29, 2024 - Veteran judiciary-watcher Ed Whelan—who has faithfully and fruitfully served the conservative legal movement since its early days—has written an article...
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Jan 15, 2024 - Author Anchoring Writing is a lonely profession and navigating the publishing world can be incredibly daunting. We’re here to help, a lighthouse in the...
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/after-dobbs-the-end-of-the-beginning/
Feb 12, 2024 - James Wilson Institute Founder Hadley Arkes reflects on the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
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Feb 12, 2024 - Garrett Snedeker, Anchoring Truths Co-Founder & JWI Deputy Director As host of the Anchoring Truths podcast, I read a wide variety of books in preparation...
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Mar 20, 2025 - Editor's Note: This piece was originally published at Steve Hayward’s Substack here. Anchoring Truths has been given permission by Hayward to reprint...
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Jun 19, 2025 - Editor’s Note: On May 1, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the Religious Liberty Commission to direct the federal government to...
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Jul 24, 2025 - 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...
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May 1, 2024 - James Madison's notes from July 23, 1787 at the Constitutional Convention feature a report on various views on proposals to require an "oath to...
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Feb 12, 2024 - When we think of the United States Constitution, we probably consider the structure it gives to our national government. We may think of its presence at the...
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Feb 12, 2024 - John Ehrett '21 wants a successful postliberal theory to have "bigger and brighter dreams" than Patrick Deneen does in "Regime Change."
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Apr 17, 2025 - He can do more than, as John Roberts would have him doing, in affirming the law of non-contradiction.
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Feb 12, 2024 - Cline argues that the roots of a nation's receptiveness to the Natural Law grow from its Christian foundation.
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Nov 5, 2025 - In community spaces across the province, we continually hear calls for enhanced professional development, learning opportunities, and stronger community...
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Jan 23, 2025 - Nils A. Haug Fabricated Identity and the Dilemma of Moral Authority – Part 1
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/diseconomies-of-law/
Feb 12, 2024 - Anchoring Truths co-founder Garrett Snedeker reviews Trouble at the Bar on Law and Liberty.
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Feb 12, 2024 - The presidents of three prestigious Ivy League Universities testify before the House Committee, and as a result of this discussion, Magill resigns.
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/first-order-truths-and-the-untethered-human-spirit-part-2/
Dec 19, 2024 - “Man was born free yet he is everywhere in chains.” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762) Part One of this essay endeavored to sketch a framework, rooted in...
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/samuel-alitos-prophetic-vision/
Feb 12, 2024 - Senior Scholar David Forte praises Samuel Alito's courage, as demonstrated by his draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/evil-up-close-jana-paleys-diary-in-wartime/diaries-from-wartime-crippling-interruptions-to-institutional-trust/
May 30, 2024 - An encounter with two female members of the Israeli Defense Force gives Jana Paley a new view of the IDF in this latest installment of "Evil Up Close:...
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Feb 12, 2024 - Michael Hayes (JWF '20) analyzes the Court's positions on substantive due process in the key Dobbs decision, and makes clear that try as we might, we...
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May 8, 2025 - Anyone with an interest in preserving a just legal system should pause for a moment and consider this absurdity. The vast majority of American law students...
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May 30, 2024 - Daily life in Jerusalem as Israel recovers from the events of October 7, 2023
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May 1, 2024 - Hadley Arkes responds to the WSJ editorial on Kari Lake's "abortion finesse."
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Jan 29, 2025 - 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...
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Feb 12, 2024 - Today, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey...
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Jul 31, 2024 - Americans have forgotten what true leisure is. Leisure is not merely the absence of labor or the recuperation of health and vitality, so that labor can be...
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/institutional-settlement-determination-and-mere-natural-law/
Feb 12, 2024 - In reviewing "Mere Natural Law," scholar Jordan Perkins argues that it is necessary that legal cognition be infused with moral reasoning.
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Feb 12, 2024 - Prof. Hadley Arkes responds in the WSJ explaining how reviving the Born Alive Infants Protection Act could prove the best strategy for Republicans in Congress.
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/james-wilson-and-we-the-people/
Feb 12, 2024 - Prof. John Mikhail describes the unique role of James Wilson among the Founders as both moral philosopher and legal scholar who shaped our Constitution and our...
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Aug 22, 2025 - Prof. Arkes's article in the Texas Review of Law & Politics is hosted at Anchoring Truths with permission. Its original location may be found here....
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/natural-born-lawyers-a-scholar-challenges-the-conservative-legal-movement/
Feb 12, 2024 - David Deavel reviews Mere Natural Law, showing how it ddraws out the moral arguments present in nature.
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https://www.anchoringtruths.org/four-tests-for-trumps-judicial-nominees/
May 8, 2025 - Editor's Note: This essay originally appeared at TomKlingenstein.com. It is republished at Anchoring Truths with permission. In 2016, there was arguably...
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