Hale Institute Podcast

Glenn Moots, chair of the political science and philosophy department at Northwood University, returns to the show to talk about Protestantism, constitutionalism, and the American founding.

Is America a People or an Idea? The Case Study of Protestant Constitutionalism in our Semiquincentennial

https://adfontesjournal.com/church-society/is-america-a-people-or-an-idea-protestant-constitutionalism-semiquincentennial/

Protestant Constitutionalism and American Independence

https://archive.americanreformer.org/2026/07/protestant-constitutionalism-and-american-independence/

How Radical Was the American Revolution?

https://archive.americanreformer.org/2026/05/how-radical-was-the-american-revolution/

The Role of Theology and Philosophy in American Independence

https://www.libertyfund.org/pamphlet/the-role-of-theology-and-philosophy-in-american-independence/

Alex Priou, professor at the University of Austin (UATX), joins to talk about Plato, Machiavelli, Heidegger, Strauss, and everything in between.

Allen Mendenhall, research fellow for the Institute of Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, comes on show to talk about his career as a lawyer, academic, and think tanker, the state of corporate and education reform, and the future of the conservative legal movement.

David Upham, professor of law at St. Thomas University College of Law and senior fellow of politics and law at the University of Dallas, talks to Timon about the 14th Amendment and the privileges and immunities of American citizenship.

Taking American Citizenship Seriously

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/taking-american-citizenship-seriously-9781978761438/

Citizenship & the 14th Amendment with Prof. David Upham

https://www.anchoringtruths.org/2026/06/18/citizenship-the-14th-amendment-with-prof-david-upham/

Jeremy Christiansen, professor of law at Regent University School of Law, returns to the show to talk about what the recent Trump v. Barbara decision means for citizenship and originalism.

Trump v. Barbara: "A Rare Species of Victory?"

Trump v. Barbara and the End of Originalism

Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Afroyim Has Got to Go!

Are Latter-day Saints Christians? - First Things

Carl Richard, professor at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, comes on the show to talk about several of his books on how the American founders were influenced by both antiquity and scripture.

The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment
https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Classics-Greece-American-Enlightenment/dp/0674314263

The Founders and the Bible
https://a.co/d/00iZB7PL

So Help Us, God: American Presidents and the Bible
https://a.co/d/0fD6gMls

With Trump v. Barbara before the Supreme Court, Ilan Wurman, professor of law at the University of Minnesota, joins the show to discuss his scholarship on the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment citizenship clause.

JURISDICTION AND CITIZENSHIP by Ilan Wurman
https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2026/02/49.Wurman.pdf

Clearing Up Confusion on Birthright Citizenship by Ilan Wurman
https://americanmind.org/salvo/clearing-up-confusion-on-birthright-citizenship/

BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE PROFESSOR ILAN WURMAN IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-365/392842/20260127175852031_Trump%20v%20Barbara%20-%20Wurman%20Amicus%20Brief%20-%20FINAL.pdf

The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction by Ilan Wurman
Amazon.com: The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction: 9781009485692: Wurman, Ilan: Books

Scott Yenor, professor at Boise State and Director, B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation, talks to Timon about how conservatives can capture and reform legal education.

The Long Game in the Legal Academy

https://tomklingenstein.com/the-long-game-in-the-legal-academy/

Compulsory Feminism

https://firstthings.com/compulsory-feminism/

Up from Conservatism

https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/up-from-conservatism/

What is the future of legal conservatism? How should it reorient itself to present challenges? Jesse Merriam, professor at Patrick Henry College, joins the show to answer these questions (and more).

Legal Conservatism for Our Time - The American Mind

https://americanmind.org/features/legal-conservatism-for-our-time/

Shock Therapy for Our Lawless Legal System - The American Mind

https://americanmind.org/features/legal-conservatism-for-our-time/shock-therapy-for-our-lawless-legal-system/

A debate over common good constitutionalism, natural law, and classical jurisprudence has occupied much of the conservative legal world for the past several years. Jeremy Christiansen, professor of law at Regent University School of Law and editor of the New Digest, comes on the show to talk about what the classical legal tradition is.

Jeremy M. Christiansen, J.D. | Regent University
https://www.regent.edu/faculty/jeremy-christiansen/

Substack: The New Digest | Managing Editors
https://thenewdigest.substack.com/

Thomas Pink (King's College London) comes on the show to discuss Roman Catholic integralism, Francisco Suarez, Thomas Hobbes, and more.

Thomas Pink, King's College London, Philosophy, Faculty Member

https://kcl.academia.edu/ThomasPink

James Baird, author of King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government, joins the show to discuss confessional and historic Protestant political thought.

Purchase Kings of Kings by James Baird here: https://press.founders.org/shop/king-of-kings/

Miles Smith & Adam Carrington join Timon to talk about the religious and political thought of Anglicans in the early republic.

To purchase That Blessed Liberty: Episcopal Bishops and the Development of the American Republic 1789-1860, go to:

https://a.co/d/0Ij2Pnt

Mark David Hall, professor at Regent University, bravely makes his second appearance on the show to talk about his 2023 book, Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land, a history of Christianity's influence on American freedom and equality.

Daniel Strand, professor of ethics at the Air War College, comes on the show to break down and critique 20th century liberal readings of Augustine's City of God and provide a corrective consideration of Augustine's cosmological politics.

Augustine the "Liberal"

https://providencemag.com/2019/03/augustine-liberal/

From Domination to Liberation: Augustine's Critique of Roman Political Religion in City of God

https://paideiacenter.com/special-lectures-5/

Reformed on War
https://americanreformer.org/2024/12/reformed-on-war/

Owen Anderson, professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, comes on the show to talk about natural law, Matthew Hale, wisdom, and death.

Subscribe to Owen Anderson's substack here:
https://drowenanderson.substack.com/

Purchase Christian Philosophy and the Fear of God: Sir Matthew Hale on Considering our Final End here:
https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Philosophy-Fear-God-Considering/dp/B0DWLJJW85

Chad Pecknold, professor at the Catholic University of America, talks to Timon about the proper reading of Augustine's famous work.

Timon is joined by Tom Price (DPhil. Oxford), who teaches theology at Gordon Conwell and the University of Saint Joseph and co-hosts the Theology Pugcast, for a wide-ranging discussion of natural law.

Theology Pugcast
https://crwiley.com/the-theology-pugcast/

Longtime editor of Modern Age, Daniel McCarthy, comes on the show to talk about what the so-called New Right has going for it, and what it can afford to learn from the western tradition.

https://modernagejournal.com/

Graham Shearer teaches theology at Union Theological College. He joins Timon on the show to talk about the use of historical sources and current political trends.