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"If walls could talk, would they advertise abortions?" by Catherine Glenn Foster '16

By The James Wilson Institute • Apr 23 2018

Catherine Glenn Foster, a 2016 James Wilson Fellow, offers commentary on the pending case on the rights of NIFLA v. Becerra before the Supreme Court with her piece, "If walls could talk, would they advertise abortions?" Foster, who serves…

Interview with 2017 James Wilson Fellow: Tom Johnson

By The James Wilson Institute • Apr 2 2018

Tom Johnson was recently hired as a general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Previously, he was the Deputy Solicitor General for the State of West Virginia. He also practiced appellate and constitutional law and…

"Putting The 'Big' In Big Government" - Prof. Michael Uhlmann in The Claremont Review of Books

By The James Wilson Institute • Mar 6 2018

In a piece for the Claremont Review of Books, JWI Senior Scholar Prof. Michael Uhlmann reviews Prof. Joseph Postell's Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State's Challenge to Constitutional Government. Prof. Uhlmann articulates the…

"Conservatives And Freedom Of Speech" - Prof. Hadley Arkes in the Claremont Review of Books

By The James Wilson Institute • Mar 5 2018

Writing in the Claremont Review of Books, Prof. Hadley Arkes details the intellectual poverty of defending a notion of "free of speech" that denies any limiting principles on speech. The piece, "Conservatives and Freedom of Speech:…

Does Gordon Giampietro Need a Defense?- Prof. Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing

By The James Wilson Institute • Mar 3 2018

Writing in The Catholic Thing, Professor Hadley Arkes defends Gordon Giampietro, a nominee for a federal district judgeship in Wisconsin in a piece titled "Does Gordon Giampietro Need a Defense?" A “controversy” was generated because of…

"What's Wrong with Rod Dreher's Straussian Narrative of the American Constitution" - Paul DeHart from Public Discourse

By The James Wilson Institute • Feb 23 2018

In "What's Wrong with Rod Dreher's Straussian Narrative of the American Constitution" Professor Paul R. DeHart examines the argument that modernity begins with the Enlightenment and how that premise impacts any understanding of the…

"The Left's Dirty Little Secret" - Prof. Michael Uhlmann in the Claremont Review of Books

By The James Wilson Institute • Jan 15 2018

Earlier this year the Claremont Review of Books published Prof. Michael Uhlmann's review of Thomas Leonard's Illiberal Reformers. Prof. Uhlmann, a JWI Senior Scholar, notes "that eugenics lay at the very center of the progressive program,"…

"Jack Phillips Has His Day In Court" - Prof. Hadley Arkes in the Claremont Review of Books Digital

By The James Wilson Institute • Dec 8 2017

In early December 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case concerns a weave of questions on freedom of religious expression, limitations on speech, and laws on public…

"Are Intellectual Property Rights Moral?" - Gunnar Gundersen in Starting Points Journal

By The James Wilson Institute • Dec 5 2017

In the digital age, intellectual property - from proprietary algorithms to music - may be just as valuable as real estate and factories. In a piece for Starting Points Journal entitled, “Are Intellectual Property Rights Moral?,” JWI…

Natural Rights and Health Care: An Interview with Dr. Yuval Levin

By The James Wilson Institute • Dec 1 2017

Dr. Yuval Levin is the founding editor of National Affairs and contributing editor to National Review and The Weekly Standard. The Hertog Fellow and Director of the Bioethics and American Democracy program at the Ethics and Public Policy…

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