Minisode 6: National Conservatism Conference Scenes

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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. Edmund Burke Foundation, organizer of NatCon 4 Video of NatCon4 speeches and panels

Judicial Value and the Common Good

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Conservative constitutionalism stands at a crossroads.  It has since the 1980s married itself to “originalism”, a basically sound approach to the proper interpretation of an authoritative legal text such as the Constitution.  This union has produced many good results over the last few decades.  But conservative originalism has lately cultivated a pronounced, articulated aversion to critical morality, to

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