Hadley Arkes

Wild Beasts and Idle Humors by Daniel Robinson Harvard University Press,311 pages, $29.95 Daniel Robinson, as I recall him, was a striking figure when he landed at Amherst in the late 1960s, and he was made all the more striking as he was viewed against the backdrop of this new setting. He was a . . . . Continue Reading »

We were taping, early in May, a program for public television dealing with “same-sex marriage.” Opposite me was a professor of law, openly gay, who had just written a book in favor of gay marriage. The question before us was whether the states would be obliged to honor the marriage of homosexual . . . . Continue Reading »

In this article, James Q. Wilson responds to Hadley Arkes comments in our previous issue . James Q. Wilson In his critique of my essay on abortion (“Abortion Facts and Feelings,” April) , Hadley Arkes takes me to task, not for my specific proposals, but for my basing these proposals on . . . . Continue Reading »

The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain, who was suddenly delivered to Oxford University. The word soon got about that the tradition of cannibalism had not been perfectly extinguished in this young man's tribe, and a certain concern was registered, . . . . Continue Reading »

The March issue of First Things featured an essay by Robert H. Bork, “Natural Law and the Constitution.” In that essay, Judge Bork responded to criticisms of his views on the topic by Hadley Arkes, Russell Hittinger, and William Bentley Ball. Because of the significance of the subject, . . . . Continue Reading »