Author: Hadley Arkes

Hadley Arkes is the Ney Professor Emeritus at Amherst College, and the Founder/Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding in Washington, D.C.

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A Conservative Argues Some ‘Free Speech’ Is Assault

It has become familiar among conservatives, on and off campus, to cast up the warnings about “moral relativism” as they gnash their teeth about the state of the culture. And yet we often find conservatives with a libertarian bent backing into a soft version of relativism. That tendency has been especially pronounced among conservatives who […]

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