“All men, by nature, desire to know.” So did Aristotle introduce his mighty “Metaphysics.” Knowledge is a natural human good, desirable for its own sake. And human beings fulfill or achieve the natural good of knowledge through a variety of enduring institutions. Institutions are a society’s knowledge […]
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That’s by and large the subject of our discussion on this new podcast, as Kevin and I chatted about some comments he will offer in response to Jonathan Gienapp’s “Against Constitutional Originalism” at a conference at Yale. It gave us a chance to revisit one of my favorite old cases, Calder v. Bull (1798), and […]
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These are the topics, rather close to home, that Kevin and I take up in this episode of Sub Deo. Listen in!
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A follow-up Sub Deo podcast to our last concerning the Bruen case, in this episode Kevin and I reflect on the methodology of United Stated v. Rahimi and think about judicial prudence in light of a wonderful old classic of constitutional theory from the 1980s, The Rise of Modern Judicial Review, by Christopher Wolfe. Listen […]
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In our newest episode, Kevin and I interview our friend and colleague, Joel Alicea, about his very fine new article, Bruen Was Right. Along the way we cover several broad and specific matters of constitutional interpretation. It was a pleasure to do this with two originalist friends of mine. Listen in!
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