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Natural Law Moment

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by James Wilson Institute

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The legal world is a tumultuous one, and to comprehend it, we must get to the heart of the matter. We must endeavor to understand the principles of judgment upon which the decisions that shape our personal and public lives are based. Before we can ask "what ought to be?" we must ask "what is?" To do this, we need the Natural Law. Profs. Hadley Arkes & Gerry Bradley are the preeminent Natural Law scholars of our day. And with over 80 years of experience between them, not only will the Natural Law Moment podcast place you in the room with them, but it will also teach you to think like them.

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Recent Episodes

April 15, 2026

Student of Leo Strauss: Hadley Arkes's Formation at UChicago

Join Natural Law Moment for the next installment of a look back into the lives of our co-hosts Profs. Arkes and Bradley before they became the storied teachers they would become.This latest episode focuses on Hadley Arkes's intellectual formation at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s as a graduate student of the legendary philosopher and political scientiest Leo Strauss. Our co-hosts explore the ingredients that made the University of Chicago of that era such a vibrant place, a place where Arkes would never have wanted to leave "to study abroad." Arkes recounts classroom interactions between Strauss and his students as well as the philosophic developments that would come to be associated with a revival of conservative thought on the American Founders and Lincoln. And don't miss what Arkes says that Strauss might say to our leaders of today.

December 23, 2025

Prosecutor as Moral Agent: Gerry Bradley's Early Years in the Manhattan DA's Office

Join co-hosts Hadley Arkes and Gerry Bradley for the first of something we expect to become a regular feature on Natural Law Moment, a look back into the lives of Profs. Arkes and Bradley before became the storied teachers they would become. This latest episode focuses on how young Gerry Bradley was thrust into the rough and tumble world of the law as a young prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in the early 1980s. The conversation explores how the practice of law as a young prosecutor in the New York of that era was an education like none other, with the sordid business of prostitution, drugs, and homicide providing regular fodder for the work of young Bradley well before be entered academia to become a professor of criminal procedure. Arkes and Bradley delve into how moral decisions infuse the work of a prosecutor along with all those entrusted to maintain law and order in the city. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/natural-law-moment/id1828249441" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Subscribe to Natural Law Moment on Apple Podcasts</a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6baZXvwD1NK4TY5ACfvwfo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Subscribe to Natural Law Moment on Spotify</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@jameswilsoninstitute7296/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Follow Natural Law Moment on YouTube</a><a href="https://www.jameswilsoninstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Learn more about the James Wilson Institute</a>

December 9, 2025

The “Illegitimate” Supreme Court? Sorting Myth from Reality

Join Natural Law Moment’s hosts Hadley Arkes and Gerry Bradley for a pointed discussion of the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary in American public life.Since the confirmation of three Supreme Court justices appointed by President Trump, progressives have publicly questioned the legitimacy of the Court, threatening to pack it beyond nine members. Yet now even with the significant progressive challenge to the Court as an institution, some conservatives have begun to muse whether the judiciary writ large, now from time to time in stark opposition to the executive branch, could jeopardize its legitimacy with rulings far sweeping. This discussion has urgency since rulings of Supreme Court affect America’s public life and as ever, the moral and legal course of the country. Tune in today!

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What is Natural Law Moment?: The legal world is a tumultuous one, and to comprehend it, we must get to the heart of the matter. We must endeavor to understand the principles of judgment upon which the decisions that shape our personal and public lives are based.

Before we can ask "what ought to be?" we must ask "what is?"

To do this, we need the Natural Law.

Profs. Hadley Arkes & Gerry Bradley are the preeminent Natural Law scholars of our day. And with over 80 years of experience between them, not only will the Natural Law Moment podcast place you in the room with them, but it will also teach you to think like them.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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