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Constitutional Illusions trip Anchoring Truths:
The Yardstick of rendering Natural Law
by hadley arkes
cambridge, 280 pages, $25.99

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Matthew Franck (133)

Matthew J. Franck is Contributing Editor of Public Discourse. He is also a retired Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University, Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Radford University, where he chaired the department and taught courses in political philosophy, constitutional law, and American politics. Franck has written, edited, or contributed to books published by the University Press of Kansas, Lexington Books, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press, and has published articles and reviews in American Political Thought, the Review of Politics, the Journal of Church ...

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Carson Holloway (106)

Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life and co-editor of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press).

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Christopher Tollefsen (99)

Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. His most recent book, with Farr Curlin, is The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession. In 2024-25 he is a Visiting Fellow with the deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame.

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The Bookshelf: Reading in the Faith

The other day a good friend who reads these columns wrote to praise me for their “erudition.” Boy, do I have him fooled, I thought. A lifetime of more or less unplanned, haphazard reading for pleasure has given me a good deal to talk about in these excursions. So too has my professional reading for teaching and research in political theory and constitutional law. There I might claim to be “erudite”—learned and scholarly within fairly narrow confines. But I reject the “conscientious spirit” of the expert on the brain of the leech in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, who says that for the sake of his specialty he has “thrown away everything else; for its sake everything else has become indifferent to me,” and he is proudly ignorant of all but this one thing.

Not so in my case. My ignorance of many important things gnaws at me, as does the consciousness that the rest of my life is not time enough to learn what I want to know. As I wrote in this space in November 2020, there are numerous significant works of literature I haven’t read, and want to. The start of a new year, too, is a good time to resolve to read more widely and deeply in other ways as well. And lately my thoughts have turned to authors with whom I have some acquaintance bu