Articles tagged as Harry Jaffa
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“What Thomas Aquinas via Harry Jaffa Can Say to the New Right” – Glenn Ellmers in Anchoring Truths
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
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
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 […]