
Josh Hammer on The Conservative Legal Movement
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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 28—Josh Hammer, op-ed editor at Newsweek, discusses the conservative legal movement, a recent abortion case that places two foundational modern abortion precedents in the crosshairs, and Hamiltonian jurisprudence.
In this episode...
- “Common Good Originalism” is defined
- Josh walks us through the conservative legal movement’s history
- Josh answers the question about whether conservatives should be cautiously optimistic about the abortion case in front of the Supreme Court
Texts Mentioned:
- “Common Good Originalism” by Josh Hammer
- “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America” by Alex MacGillis
- “Amazon Unbound” by Brad Stone
- “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s" by William I Hitchcock
- “The Age of Entitlement” by Christopher Caldwell
- “The Crimean War” by Orlando Figes
- “Beyond Originalism” by Adrian Vermeule
- “The Constitution Already Prohibits Abortion: An Originalist Case for Prenatal Personhood” by Josh Craddock
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