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Anchoring Truths, Natural Law, and Moral Order — A Conversation with Professor Hadley Arkes

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Importance of Originalism in American History

I would frame the argument a bit differently because I'm in a different place. But I would simply say that originalism is necessary, but not enough. And taken by itself, if originalism is all you've got, then all you have at the very most is some kind of delay in the inevitable progress of moral dissolution. All it does is perhaps slow down an engine of ideological progressivism as it just replaces ideologically progressive arguments with slower arguments. The remarkable thing now is that the people have been coming over to our side of young lawyers, judges,. and people are beginning to sense something is a ride.

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