Mamet’s Map and NetChoice v. Paxton

by Philip Hamburger

NetChoice v. Paxton is a case about government-orchestrated censorship that will decide the fate of free speech in this country. Continue Reading »

26 Feb 2024

The People’s Justice

by Mark Bauerlein

Amul Thapar joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him. Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2024

Letters

by Various

Liel Leibovitz’s article “Fight Together, Win Together” (December 2023) is a stirring encapsulation of the dark side, so to speak, of intersectionality’s ideological ascendancy within western academic institutions. Two questions stand out to me after reading the piece. Several groups of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2024

Beware of Multiculturalists

by Mark Bauerlein

Thomas F. Powers joins the podcast to discuss his book American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime. Continue Reading »

22 Dec 2023

Bringing Natural Law Down to Earth

by Hadley Arkes

The purpose of my book Mere Natural Law was to bring natural law down out of the clouds, to show how it bears in very precise and concrete ways on such matters as the regulation of speech. Continue Reading »

18 Dec 2023

Window of Opportunism

by L. Martin Nussbaum

So-called “window bills,” which eliminate statutes of limitations on child sexual abuse claims for periods of two or three years, have been enacted in more than seventeen states. Their primary justification—the thesis that victims of child sexual abuse are psychologically constrained from . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2023

Anchors Aweigh

by Marc O. DeGirolami

C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity famously begins with vignettes of ordinary experience. People of all ages and levels of education, Lewis observes, often say things like: “How’d you like it if anyone did the same to you?” “That’s my seat, I was there first,” “Leave him . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2023

A Controversy in Australia

by Mark Bauerlein

John Moran joins the podcast to discuss a recently rejected Australian referendum that proposed special representation for indigenous people in government. Continue Reading »

27 Nov 2023

Is the Constitution “Neutral” on Nature?

by Hadley Arkes

The very telos of any Constitution would be to protect those rights that flow to us by nature. Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2023

Life After Dobbs

by Gerard V. Bradley

“The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.” It is now one year, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2023