A Second Look at First Things: A Case for Conservative Politics: The Hadley Arkes Festschrift

edited by Francis J. Beckwith, Robert P. George and Susan McWilliams
foreword by Daniel Robinson

St. Augustine's Press, 2013
eISBN: 978-1-58731-761-3 | Paper: 978-1-58731-759-0
Library of Congress Classification JC573.2.U6S43 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.520973

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Daniel Robinson (Oxford University)

Introduction: A Second Look at First Things

Francis J. Beckwith (Baylor University)

I. Conservatism, Statecraft, and Soulcraft

1. Larry Arnn (Hillsdale College)

“What is Political Conservatism?”

2. Allen Guelzo (Gettysburg College)

“Lincoln and Justice for All”

3. Susan McWilliams (Pomona College)

“Moral Education and the Art of Storytelling”

4. James Schall, S. J. (Georgetown University)

“On `Eating the Last Pizza’: The Wit of Hadley Arkes”

II. Jurisprudence

5. David Forte (Cleveland State University)

“The Morality of the Positive Law”

6. Micah Watson (Union University)

“Statecraft as Soulcraft: The Case for Legislating Morality”

7. Christopher Wolfe (Marquette University)

“Natural Law and Contemporary Liberalism”

III. Religion, Liberal Democracy, and the American Project

8. J. Budziszewski (University of Texas, Austin)

“Why the Natural Law Suggests a Divine Source”

9. Vincent Phillip Muñoz (University of Notre Dame)

“The Place of Religion in the American Founding”

10. Michael Novak (American Enterprise Institute)

“Freedom Under God: An American Understanding of Religious Liberty”

11. Gerard Bradley (Notre Dame Law School)

“Veritatis Splendor: Exceptionless Moral Norms, Human Rights, and the Common Good”

IV. Communities, Persons, and Institutions

12. James R. Stoner, Jr. (Louisiana State University)

“The Justice of the Market and the Common Good: Justice Sutherland’s Debate”

13. Christopher Tollefsen (University of South Carolina)

“The Unborn and the Scope of the Human Community”

14. Peter Augustine Lawler (Berry College)

“Being Personal These Days: Designer Babies and the Future of Liberal Democracy”

15. Sherif Girgis (Princeton University), Robert P. George (Princeton University), and Ryan T. Anderson (University of Notre Dame)

“What is Marriage?”

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