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"Drifting into Newspeak" Prof. Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

In a recent article for The Catholic Thing, JWI founder Hadley Arkes analyzes the recent opinions of the 6th Circuit case EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Beshear. In Orwellian fashion, the dissenting judge accuses the Kentucky legislature…

“The Constitution and the March for Life”: Professor Hadley Arkes in the Catholic Thing

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

In light of last Friday's annual March for Life, this one coming 47 years since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, JWI founder and director Hadley Arkes takes issue with the sovereignty that the Court has taken for itself on the issue…

“The Transgendered ERA”: Professor Hadley Arkes in The American Mind

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

JWI founder and director Hadley Arkes analyzes how the Equal Rights Amendment, which has staged a sort of comeback decades after its expiration date, remains indefensible and unworkable. While it faced a number of vexing questions just in…

Memories of Michael Uhlmann: An Evening's Celebration

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

The James Wilson Institute hosted an evening for friends, colleagues, and students of Michael Uhlmann, our recently passed friend and JWI Senior Scholar, to share stories and memories of the man. The evening was filled with tales of…

“Friends Clashing—Yet One More Time—On Free Speech”: Professors Hadley Arkes and Robert Miller in The Public Discourse

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

"On the Uses and Misuses of Crowds": Prof. Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

In his latest entry in his column in The Catholic Thing, Prof. Arkes addresses the amoral assumptions undergirding the approach to protest movements today. While America has a tradition of protecting speech, protest, and the right to…

“Precedent and the Conservative Court” – Jeremy Rozansky in National Affairs

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

In an essay for National Affairs, Jeremy Rozansky analyzes stare decisis, its justifications, and how it may influence the jurisprudence of the Roberts Supreme Court. He examines how justices in the Roberts Court have articulated their…

Justin Dyer reviews "Originalism's Promise: A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution," by Lee J. Strang

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

In a piece for the Review of Politics, Justin Dyer reviews a new book by Lee J. Strang that promulgates an approach to originalism rooted in an appreciation for Aristotelean virtues and universal truths. Strang argues that the core purpose…

Fellowship Alumni Spotlight: Holden Tanner '20

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

Holden Tanner is a 3L at Yale Law School, where he serves as Vice-President of Academic Affairs for the Yale Law School chapter of the Federalist Society and Executive Editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation. After graduating, he…

"Natural Rights and Religious Liberty: The Founders' Perspective" - Vincent Phillip Muñoz in RealClearPublicAffairs

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 14 2025

In an essay for RealClearPublicAffairs' 1776 series, Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and a Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, explores the Founders'…

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