Ordain and Establish

By The Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

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Ordain and Establish is a podcast of The Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT). CIT promotes scholarship that explores the relationship between the Catholic intellectual tradition and American constitutionalism. That tradition is deep and rich, including philosophical and theological accounts of law and politics by such figures as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. CIT’s primary focus is on theories of constitutional law, such as originalism, although it covers the relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition for constitutional history, doctrine, and other fields of study.

Episode Date
Originalism, Tradition, and the Separation of Powers
May 18, 2026
The Declaration’s Role in Constitutional Interpretation
May 11, 2026
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: Keynote Conversation
Apr 23, 2026
Catholic Social Thought and the American Experiment
Apr 20, 2026
The Declaration and Constitutional Interpretation
Apr 17, 2026
Keynote Fireside Chat with Robert George
Apr 16, 2026
The Declaration and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Apr 15, 2026
Marco Rubio: The Catholic Roots of America
Apr 14, 2026
The Return of General Law
Mar 05, 2026
Equity in American Law
Feb 26, 2026
The Priesthood in the Evolution of Anglo-American Criminal Procedure
Feb 13, 2026
First Amendment Originalism
Feb 03, 2026
"Better Judgment": A Conversation with Author Reynolds Holding
Jan 21, 2026
"Judges, Judging, and Judgement": A Conversation with Author Chad Oldfather
Jan 15, 2026
Mercy, Retribution, and the Sentencing Judge
Nov 20, 2025
Eighth Annual Human Rights Lecture: Saving Human Rights in the New World Order
Nov 17, 2025
The Major Questions Doctrine after Loper Bright
Nov 17, 2025
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Jurist’s Perspective
Oct 16, 2025
Fourth Annual Lecture on Catholic Political Thought Resurrecting Justice: How Christianity Gives Justice More Than Its Due
Oct 15, 2025
A Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Sep 29, 2025
"Aquinas on the Virtues" Session 7
Aug 15, 2025
"Aquinas on the Virtues" Session 6
Aug 14, 2025
"Aquinas on the Virtues" Session 5
Aug 13, 2025
"Aquinas on the Virtues" Session 4
Aug 12, 2025
"Aquinas on the Virtues" Session 3
Aug 11, 2025
"Aquinas on the Virtues" Session 2
Aug 08, 2025
"Aquinas on the Virtues" Session 1
Aug 07, 2025
Unwritten Administrative Law
Mar 27, 2025
Chair Lecture: Constitutional Theory at a Catholic University
Mar 19, 2025
Erie and the Nature of Law
Feb 20, 2025
Law's Quandary 20 Years Later: A Book Event
Nov 21, 2024
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Jurist’s Perspective
Oct 31, 2024
American Covenant: A Conversation with Dr. Yuval Levin
Oct 25, 2024
Hope and Salvation: From Christian Eschatology to Political Ethics
Oct 11, 2024
A Conversation with Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Sep 27, 2024
Rethinking the Great Writ
Apr 19, 2024
The History of Natural Law in American Law
Apr 06, 2024
Thomistic Juridical Realism: An Introduction
Mar 26, 2024
Interpretation and the Administrative State
Mar 02, 2024
The Disintegrating Conscience And The Decline Of Modernity
Feb 26, 2024
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
Feb 19, 2024
Thomism Goes To War
Jan 30, 2024
The Administrative Virtues
Jan 20, 2024
Religious Freedom and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Jan 14, 2024
Making Men Moral and Constitutional Interpretation
Dec 17, 2023
Civil Liberties or Public Morality?
Dec 17, 2023
What is the Law For?: Making Men Moral Lunchtime Conversation
Dec 17, 2023
“Liberalism”: Is There a Baby in the Bathwater?
Dec 17, 2023
Civil Society and Subsidiarity: Challenges to Making Men Moral
Dec 17, 2023
Social Science and Public Morality
Dec 16, 2023
Making Men Moral's Challenge to Liberalism
Dec 16, 2023
30 Years of Making Men Moral: A Conversation with Robert P. George
Dec 16, 2023
Justice Samuel A. Alito: Making Men Moral 30th Anniversary Conference Keynote
Dec 13, 2023
Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik: Making Men Moral 30th Anniversary Conference Keynote
Dec 13, 2023
Great Christian Jurists in American History
Nov 27, 2023
Cicero, Natural Law, and Constitutionalism
Nov 05, 2023
Practical Reason and the Administrative State
Oct 26, 2023
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Jurist's Perspective
Oct 06, 2023
Chair Lecture
Sep 26, 2023
A Conversation with Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Sep 25, 2023
What is Law for? The Purpose of Law in the Classical Tradition
Apr 13, 2023
The Role of Tradition in Constitutional Law
Mar 16, 2023
The Revival of Original Intent
Feb 07, 2023
The Relationship Between Positive Law And Constitutional Interpretation
Feb 06, 2023
The Future of Liberalism
Jan 18, 2023
The Catholic Foundations of the Establishment Clause
Jan 12, 2023
The Influence of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on the Common Law
Nov 18, 2022
The Judicial Virtues
Nov 10, 2022
Is the Administrative State Morally Legitimate?
Nov 01, 2022
Towards Nondelegation Doctrines
Oct 14, 2022
Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Jurist's Perspective
Oct 13, 2022
How to Inherit a Kingdom: Reflections on the Situation of Catholic Political Thought
Oct 06, 2022
Natural Law and Original Meaning
Sep 02, 2022