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If we then decide as a society that is going to be the normal run of things for the state to also raise our very young children, I think we are seeding the moral authority of our children of the world over to the state.

And we are not going to like the end of that road.

This is your host Scott Bertram.

And that's Kimberly Ells.

She's the author of The Invincible Family,

Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can't Win.

A book now out in paperback, we talk in depth with Kimberly about that in just a little bit.

First, we're joined by Dr. Bradley, C.S. Lewis.

He is Associate Professor of Government at the Van Andal Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale in D.C.

Dr. Watson, thanks so much for joining us.

Hi, Scott. Thank you very much for having me.

Talking today about a piece you wrote in the Claremont Review of Books in the fall of 22 edition,

also available on the website there, Restoring the Constitution.

Clarence Thomas dismantles the fiction of substantive due process.

We'll try to explain all that in our time together today.

You start the essay with a description of Justice Thomas's concurring opinion in the Dobbs case,

and you call it bold. What in your mind makes his concurrence so bold?

Yeah, it's bold, I think, because Thomas is not going with the flow. He's very much

carving out his own path. In the Dobbs case, I mean, he separates himself not only from the court's

progressive wing, but also from the conservative wing with whom he concurred in the judgment,

but in his concurring opinion, he gave his own reasons for judgment, different from everyone

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