JWI Presents: Anchoring Truths Podcast

Shoshana Weissmann is the senior manager of digital media and a fellow at the R Street Institute, a free-market think tank. She oversees RSI’s social media, email marketing, and website while also working and writing on a variety of policy and regulatory subjects. She also likes SpongeBob. Jon Schweppe is the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for American Principles Project (APP). In this role, he develops and advances the organization’s legislative priorities by working with allied groups and with federal and state lawmakers. Prior to joining APP in late 2014, he worked on a number of political campaigns, focusing mainly on communications and policy. Schweppe was named a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute in 2020. He has been published at a number of outlets, including First Things, the New York Post, The Federalist, and the Daily Caller. He graduated from Augustana College in 2010 with majors in economics and finance. Shoshana and Jon lead us through a discussion of Section 230, the disagreements between different movements in the broader conservative movement and the implications for the internet in the future.

On Common Good Constitutionalism, Judicial Supremacy, and Nationwide Injunctions

An Interview with Peter Wallison

June 2019

"John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court" with Richard Brookhiser

On his book: Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State's Challenge to Constitutional Government (University of Missouri Press, 2017).

Christopher DeMuth is a Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He was President of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) from 1986-2008 and D.C. Searle Senior Fellow at AEI from 2008-2011. In this lecture from 2014,  Mr. DeMuth addressed the unconstitutional actions taken by the Obama administration,  the active role of congress has in ceding its authority to the executive branch through regulatory agencies, and how these same agencies subvert the separation of powers.