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16Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the Study of the American RegimeRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring vitality of classic books and by articulating the theoretical and practical flaws of relativism and historicism, the contributors argue that Strauss and the Straussians have identified fundamenta…Read more
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7Second look at first things: a case for conservative politics: the Hadley Arkes festschrift (edited book)St. Augustine's Press. 2013.
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17Beyond the ConstitutionPrinceton University Press. 1990.Hadley Arkes argues that it is necessary to move "beyond the Constitution", to the principles that stood antecedent to the text, if we are to understand the text and apply the Constitution to the cases that arise every day in our law.
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6In Celebration of Fr. SchallCatholic Social Science Review 21 17-22. 2016.For James Schall, revelation becomes open to us, on the most important questions that revelation can address, when it is opened by people who “study politics,” as Samuel Johnson had it. For Plato, the best city, the best political order, was spun out in the world of speech. It is not a place we expect to inhabit. But Plato had Socrates say at the end of the Republic that, whether this City exists anywhere or not, it is the only city in which the thoughtful man would wish to take part. But even s…Read more
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40The “laws of reason” and the surprise of the natural lawSocial Philosophy and Policy 18 (1): 146-175. 2001.The city of Cincinnati, we know, can be an engaging place, but federal judge Arthur Spiegel also found, in the mid-'90s, that it could be quite a vexing place. The city council of Cincinnati had passed what was called the Human Rights Ordinance of 1992, which barred virtually all species of discriminationAppalachian origin.sexual orientation.minority status” in the law. The framers of the amendment objected to the tendency to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered…Read more
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28First Things: An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Morals and JusticePrinceton University Press. 1986.An Inquiry into the first principles of morals and justice: This book restores to us an understanding that was once settled in the 'moral sciences': that there are propositions, in morals and law, which are not only true but which cannot be ...
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4After reestablishing the connection between morality and the law, the author develops a coherent position on many of the most controversial issues of urban life: the political uses of the streets; verbal assaults and the defamation of racial groups; the legitimate restriction of public speech; segregation, busing, and the use of racial quotas; education, housing, and the problem of the ghetto"; prostitution, gambling, and the "regulation of vices." Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Leg…Read more
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2Guaranteeing the Good Life: Medicine and the Return of EugenicsWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 1990."Dialogue" is one of American religion's shopworn terms. Although we hear much talk about dialogue, very little of it actually takes place. Religious discourse - especially about politics and public affairs - is increasingly polarized, involving much contestation but little conversation. If truth are to be tested, however, there is no substitute for dialogue.
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37The Resurrection of Nature (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (4): 762-765. 1987.Budziszewski offers, in these pages, the sense of a lively mind engaging a serious question: he would resist that movement in modern philosophy which has sought to discredit the socalled naturalistic fallacy and ethical naturalism--the movement which has sought to deny that we can find, in human nature, the standards that mark a distinctly human good, and which furnish the grounds for our judgments about right and wrong. Budziszewski would restore an older understanding, in which "human nature" …Read more
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24Production of pluripotent stem cells by oocyte-assisted reprogramming: joint statement with signatoriesThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (3). 2005.
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