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Conservative Jurisprudence Must Change- Conversations with Mark Bauerlein (7.8.21)

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First Things

Religion & Spirituality

4.6699 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On this episode, Hadley Arkes joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss his recent article “Conservatives After Fulton: Time for a New Path.”

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0:00.0

Hello there. This is Mark Bowerline with another conversation. Before we get to it, a word about one of our sponsors.

0:18.8

You may have seen a recent article in inside higher ed.com that began,

0:23.9

Wyoming Catholic College has a lot of unusual things about it,

0:26.9

each enough to merit a story in itself.

0:29.7

Wyoming Catholic is a conservative Catholic college

0:31.8

that educates students in the great books and Catholic tradition.

0:35.1

It also teaches horsemanship and banned cell phones on campus. I love

0:38.9

that. And it turned down federal funding. President Glenn Arbery describes the mission this way.

0:45.2

This college is engaged in deep ways with the agony of a culture that has lost its spiritual center.

0:51.0

We're adventurous and poetic and deeply Catholic. He likes to cite Dostoevsky in

0:56.0

crime and punishment. Low ceilings are bad for the soul. The ceilings rise at Wyoming Catholic,

1:02.0

which is located in the foothills of the Wind River Mountains, the curriculum centers in the Western

1:07.0

tradition. Its Catholic identity builds upon Thomas Aquinas in the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and engaging with God in the wilderness. Find out

1:15.1

more at Wyoming Catholic.edu. We have with us today Hadley Arcus, a man who is the

1:20.4

cliche goes needs no introduction for first things readers. He's actually one of the

1:24.5

most important figures contributors in the history of the magazine,

1:28.7

30 plus years. Now, he is, he was at Amherst for a long time. He's now the director of the James

1:35.4

Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding. He has an essay in a web publication

1:41.5

of the Institute, Anchoring Truths.

1:47.5

That's the web title of the publication, with the title,

1:49.9

Conservatives after Fulton.

1:53.1

Time for a New Path, our topic today.

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