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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/