Conservative Conversations with ISI

Matthew Spalding on Natural Law and the American Founding, Post-liberalism, and National Conservatism

December 13, 2022 Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Conservative Conversations with ISI
Matthew Spalding on Natural Law and the American Founding, Post-liberalism, and National Conservatism
Show Notes

In This Episode:

  • Matthew Spalding, Professor of Constitutional studies at Hillsdale College in Washington D.C., joins the podcast to discuss the first principles and permanent truths that undergird the American Founding
  • how critiques from National Conservatives and Post-Liberal Integralists misunderstand classical liberalism and the “American Enlightenment”
  • the common ground between Straussians and Kirkians, and the potential for a principled fusion between the once-warring camps in the conservative movement

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