Author

Hadley Arkes

Hadley Arkes is the founding director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding in Washington, D.C. This essay is drawn, in part, from his new book, Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution (Regnery Publishing).

Articles by Hadley Arkes

Originalism Is Not Enough

Originalism Is Not Enough

Many judges simply begin with their own sense of what the right outcome should be and use constitutional clauses or commentaries as cover for their judgments.
Twin Barbarisms

Twin Barbarisms

Justin Dyer looks at the similarities in the constitutional arguments for the right to own slaves and abortion.
When a Man Loves a Woman

When a Man Loves a Woman

A review of What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense, by Robert George, Ryan Anderson, and Sherif Girgis
On Privacy

On Privacy

Hadley Arkes debates the controversy of the right to privacy and the right to an abortion