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

Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies, Baylor University. He is the author of several books including Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007)Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University, where he is also Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Among his many books is In Defense of Natural Law (Oxford University Press)Susan McWilliams is Associate Professor of Politics, Pomona College. She is co-editor (with Patrick Deneen) of The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader (University Press of Kentucky)

• ForewordDaniel Robinson (Oxford University) Introduction: A Second Look at First ThingsFrancis J. Beckwith (Baylor University) I. Conservatism, Statecraft, and Soulcraft1.            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.                Jurisprudence5.            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 Project8.            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 Institutions12.        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?”