Articles tagged as Harry Jaffa

  • “What Thomas Aquinas via Harry Jaffa Can Say to the New Right” – Glenn Ellmers in Anchoring Truths

    by James Wilson Institute on November 1, 2022
    Glenn Ellmers outlines the lessons the New Right can learn from Harry Jaffa’s insights on the need for a “ruling principle” in a political society. Ellmers argues that, while the New Right’s tendency to emphasize the concrete grounds of moral-political life is correct, the movement can’t ignore universal principles of justice—what Aquinas and Aristotle called […]
  • PODCAST: Glenn Ellmers on The Soul of Politics

    by James Wilson Institute on August 13, 2021
    Claremont Institute senior fellow Glenn Ellmers joined JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and JWI Intern Seth Root to discuss his forthcoming book, The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America. In the podcast, we discussed Jaffa’s views on the moral roots of the American regime and Jaffa’s books, Crisis of the […]
  • “Common Good Originalism”: Josh Hammer in The American Mind

    by James Wilson Institute on May 15, 2020
    In a measured response to Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule’s critique of originalism, Josh Hammer, a friend of the James Wilson Institute and Of Counsel at the First Liberty Institute, proposes a middle way between originalism and common good constitutionalism. While he agrees with much of Vermeule’s philosophy and argument, he sees a complete abandonment […]