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Lessons in Principles & Prudence from Aristotle & the Ancients with Alex Petkas (opens the original)
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Whenever we at the James Wilson Institute begin one of our weeklong fellowships or even our weekend introductory seminars on Natural Law Jurisprudence, we begin not with the writings of our institute’s namesake or even other familiar figures from the Founding. Instead we begin, as Prof. Hadley Arkes’s classic book First Things begins, with the opening pages of Aristotle’s Politics on that moral association we call the polis and how articulating understanding of rights and obligations, those mark
Constitution of 1789 with Prof. Ilan Wurman (opens the original)
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As we are about to celebrate Constitution Day in 2026, our latest guest on the Anchoring Truths Podcast says we no longer live under the Constitution as the people who wrote and ratified it understood it. That guest is Ilan Wurman, the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota.The topic we will be discussing his Wurman’s new book, The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction . Wurman argues that modern doctrine has drifted far from original meaning. Courts, he says, no long
Myth of Birthright Citizenship with Prof. Richard Epstein (opens the original)
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Our latest Anchoring Truths Podcast returns to a topic discussed at the beginning of the summer which has only added resonance since: the true meaning of birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. Our guest is a true giant of the American legal academy—Richard A. Epstein. Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU, Director of the Classical Liberal Institute, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Ins
Restoring Faith, Freedom & Family with Tim Goeglein (opens the original)
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Join the Anchoring Truths Podcast as we host author Tim Goeglein for a discussion of his newly co-authored book What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family . Goeglein shares his thoughts on American public life, particularly the engagement in politics, culture, and religion amongst Gen Z. The book is a collection of his sharpest columns that zero in on the six pillars we must rebuild if America is going to flourish again: marriage, the family, authentic manhood, a well-
Son of the Congo with A.T. Tshibaka (opens the original)
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Imagine being three years old in the heart of the Congo. Your father has just died of cancer. Your mother is left alone to raise five children in a world of poverty, tribal conflict, and political chaos. By every human measure, your future should have been written in hardship and limitation. But that is not the story God wrote for Athanase Kadita Tshibaka—known to friends andcolleagues simply as A.T. In his powerful new memoir, Son of the Congo: A Journey of Tragedy, Triumph, and Transformation
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