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How the Justice System Lost Its Soul – and How to Get It Back | Hadley Arkes
May 14, 2025 · 77 min

In this episode of The Conor Gallagher Show, Conor sits down with Hadley Arkes, the main advocate and architect of the bill that became known as the Born-Alive Infants’ Protection Act, to discuss how the justice system lost its soul and how to get it back.

Arkes, the founder and director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding, lends his expertise on issues he has taught and written about for decades including:

- The natural right of people to govern themselves

- The justice system's inability to grasp natural law and common sense

- Leading the fight against relativism and abortion

- His conversion from Judaism to Catholicism

This conversation is a serious dose of truth delivered by a rare legendary scholar who doesn't take himself too seriously.

Learn more about Hadley Arkes' work at https://www.jameswilsoninstitute.org/

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CHAPTERS

00:01 Preview

02:15 Hadley Arkes bio

06:15 What is natural law?

09:22 When Conor made Justice Scalia angry

11:50 Unnecessarily overcomplicating right and wrong

19:55 Cohen v. California

28:45 The erosion of natural law

35:15 How arts can elevate and debase culture

39:40 The exorcist of relativism and Roe v. Wade

55:00 Federal vs. State issues

1:07:00 James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding (https://www.jameswilsoninstitute.org/)

1:12:52 Why Hadley converted from Judaism to Catholicism

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