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Federalist Radio Hour

Rethinking SCOTUS

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary


On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Hadley Arkes, legal philosopher and founding director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the relationship between "originalism" and "natural law" and explain how underlying moral truths should inform conservative judicial thinking.

You can find Arkes' book "Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution" here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mere-Natural-Law/Hadley-Arkes/9781684513017

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:20.1

I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.

0:22.7

As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com, follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.

0:28.9

Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts and subscribe to the Premium

0:32.6

version of the Federalist.com as well.

0:35.6

I'm joined today once again and very pleased to be joined once again by the one and only

0:40.3

Hadley Arches.

0:41.3

He has a book out called, Mir Natural Law, Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution.

0:49.3

Dr. Arches, thank you so much for joining us.

0:51.4

Well, I'm glad to be back with the comparable Emily Arches.

0:57.4

No one quite like her.

0:59.4

Well, Hadley also is obviously a professor at Amherst College in the FW.

1:06.4

Wow, he's a founding director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights in the

1:17.2

American Founding and does all kinds of work.

1:20.2

Seminars, Promoting Originalism and the likes of what I'm sure you've written about in

1:25.4

this book.

1:26.4

And about it in this book, Mir Natural Law.

1:29.0

And let's start with that because Originalism is in the title of this book.

1:34.0

What is the definition of Originalism?

1:37.1

Well, I think we represent the original Originalism before the people who call themselves

1:46.0

Originalists because we want to go back to the moral ground of the law that the founders

1:52.8

understood.

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