Episode 45: How to Take Over a Law School (feat. Scott Yenor)
2026-01-23 | 1h 1 mins.
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.
Episode 44: Legal Conservatism for Our Time (feat. Jesse Merriam)
2025-12-19 | 54 mins.
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
Episode 43: The Classical Legal Tradition (feat. Jeremy Christiansen)
2025-12-12 | 1h 15 mins.
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/
Episode 42: Integralism (feat. Thomas Pink)
2025-12-05 | 1h 46 mins.
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
Episode 41: King of Kings (feat. James Baird)
2025-11-21 | 1h 18 mins.
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/
The Hale Institute at New Saint Andrews College is dedicated to the study and discussion of law in its substance, grounding, and effects on persons and community. The Institute carries out its mission both through course study within the college curriculum and in wider public discourse through publication and symposia. The Institute’s aims are informed by the Christian faith in the Reformed tradition and directed to the end of empowering persons to honor God and love neighbor through promoting the conditions and institutions of political liberty and civic virtue. Timon Cline is the Director of Scholarly Initiatives at Hale Institute and host of the podcast.