Defending Ideas
Hosted by Nic Dunn · Sutherland Institute
4.4from 13 ratings
- 167
- Episodes
- 139
- Transcribed
- 13
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 932K
- YouTube views
About Defending Ideas
Defending Ideas is a weekly podcast produced by Sutherland Institute. On this show we are committed to renewing the principles of common sense conservatism, by equipping listeners to become more effective champions of sound principle and good policy. Visit defendingideas.org (http://defendingideas.org/).
- Publisher
- Sutherland Institute
- Category
- business · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Jul 2023
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
139 of 167 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Do religious institutions deserve constitutional protection? | William J. Haun & Bill Duncan
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rethinking Head Start | Alex Adams
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Do religious institutions deserve constitutional protection? | William J. Haun & Bill Duncan
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's in fact two, because Christ gave authority over the good of religion away from Caesar and toward the church he founded. And so what had happened after that in Western law was that it was understood for there to be two different kinds of domains in society, a spiritual authority and a temporal authority. And the two were meant to try to work together. The two were tried and meant to find a kind of harmony when they conflicted together. And they were meant to respect each other's governance. That idea is what birthed what a lot of scholars call legal pluralism, or the idea that there would be different institutions in the same community that have different authorities and responsibilities that the law needs to respect. […]
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- William J Haun
- Bill Duncan
- Chris Koopman
- Ford Copple
- Alex Adams
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- YouTube views
- 931,943
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 9 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 77
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