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Dec 17, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Hadley Arkes
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
thefederalist.com | Hadley Arkes
In the now famous Bostock case in 2020, Justice Neil Gorsuch set off a new wave in the culture war by imparting a constitutional wind in the sails of transgenderism. In the companion case of Harris Funeral Homes, it came down to these hard findings: When Anthony Stephens earnestly professed to regard himself as a female on everything that matters in life, the people around him, employees or employers, were obliged to respect that judgment.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
nationalreview.com | Hadley Arkes
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Hadley Arkes
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Hadley Arkes |Glenn Ellmers |Spencer Klavan |Charles Kesler
A year has now passed since the Supreme Court’s decision last June in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which six conservative Justices finally overturned Roe v. Wade (1973). True to the code of what has been offered to us over the past 40 years as “conservative jurisprudence,” the Justices accomplished that end while deliberately steering around the moral substance of the matter.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Hadley Arkes
Even after the verdict against Donald Trump in New York, Joe Biden's poll numbers continue to sink. It has become ever clearer, then, to the Democrats that abortion is the one ace they still have to play. And Trump, with his mind gloriously elsewhere, is drifting into their trap. The former president has managed, of all things, to bring back the famous debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during another grave moment of our history—and has taken Douglas' side of the argument.
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May 3, 2024 | 
anchoringtruths.org | Hadley Arkes
Photo by Wiki CommonsThe following statement was made by Professor Hadley Arkes, JWI Founder and Co-Director, as a follow-up to an essay he wrote in Public Discourse regarding a comprehensive assessment of the “free speech” understanding that has influenced and conditioned the derisive actions we see occurring on campuses today.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
thepublicdiscourse.com | Hadley Arkes
My longtime and dear friend Robert George sounded the note of liberal confidence when he declared that the regime in the universities must encompass “the right to examine and defend or criticize any idea, including ideas we judge to be extreme and even evil.” And so indeed it must. But we must be clear at the same time that nothing in that search for the truth entails that we recede in any way from the surety that we have with us, now as ever, the standards for judging evil ends to be truly evil.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Hadley Arkes
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
thefederalist.com | Hadley Arkes
In Leon Trotsky’s famous line, you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. The Republicans may not be eager to fight the 2024 election over abortion, but Mr. and Mrs. Obama have made it clear they mean to make that the central point of the campaign to come. Clearly, the Obamas regard abortion as the main ace left to them, apart from former President Donald Trump.
