JWI Presents: Anchoring Truths Podcast

JWI Presents: Anchoring Truths Podcast


Latest Episodes

Minisode 8: Will Lower Courts Preserve the Administrative State?
September 06, 2024

After the Supreme Court's blockbuster decision in Loper Bright/Relentless on administrative law, the question remains what will happen next in the effort to rein in the administrative state. Host Garrett Snedeker discusses a recent essay he wrote in w

The Classical Understanding of Natural Law with Michael Pakaluk
August 30, 2024

Join JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and Intern Catherine Hickam for a discussion with Prof. Michael Pakaluk about Natural Law and the traditional Thomistic and New Natural Law perspectives.

Revealing America's Censorship Industrial Complex with Ben Weingarten
August 22, 2024

Guest BenWeingarten,the Editor at Large at RealClearInvestigations, joins host Garrett Snedeker to document how public and private actors (government, academia, media, and tech) have acted to curtail our natural right to speak freely in a concerted effo

Minisode 7: Live from James Wilson Fellowship
August 09, 2024

For Minisode 7, host Garrett Snedeker along with JWI Program Manager Daniel Osborne offer a live update from the 2024 Summer James Wilson Fellowship for Young Lawyers. Snedeker and Osborne discuss JWI's flagship program, the lessons on law and moralit

Restoring Constitutional Unity with Yuval Levin
August 02, 2024

Join the Anchoring Truths Podcast team and Dr. Yuval Levin for a deep-dive into how the Constitution may unify us again. In his new book American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation and Could Again, Levin gives us a thorough analysis of both

Idaho v. United States: DIG'd, Ducked, and Demurred with Josh Turner
July 26, 2024

Listen as Joshua Turner, Chief of Constitutional Litigation and Policy for the State of Idaho and James Wilson Fellowship Alumnus, unpacks the ramifications of the Court's decision to return the case of Idaho v. United States back to the 9th Circuit,

Overcoming Protestant Fears of Natural Law: Prof. Andrew Walker
July 19, 2024

Host Garrett Snedeker and JWI intern Isaac Michael speak with Prof. Andrew Walker of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary about his new book Faithful Reason: Natural Law Ethics for Gods Glory and Our Good. Professor Walker discusses his intended aud

Minisode 6: National Conservatism Conference Scenes
July 12, 2024

For a special minisode, Hadley Arkes and Garrett Snedeker, who attended the 2024 National Conservatism Conference July 8-10, share impressions of both the public panel discussions and how the conference fits within our larger political and cultural moment

Making an American Originalist: Prof. Randy Barnett
July 05, 2024

Esteemed constitutional scholar and gifted law professor Randy Barnett joins the Anchoring Truths Podcast for a discussion of his new memoir A Life for Liberty: the Making of an American Originalist (Encounter). Prof. Barnett shares vignettes spanning his

Minisode 5: Chevron's End with John Vecchione
June 28, 2024

June 28, 2024 will be remembered as a historic day in U.S. Supreme Court history. The Court reversed its forty year old precedent in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a precedent that was the most important and most cited decision in all of ad