“All men, by nature, desire to know.” So did Aristotle introduce his mighty “Metaphysics.” Knowledge is a natural human good, desirable for its own sake. And human beings fulfill or achieve the natural good of knowledge through a variety of enduring institutions. Institutions are a society’s knowledge […]
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An essay of mine on the ascendancy of religious exemption in our world and exemption’s relationship with what I call “establishment” and “disestablishment” (hint: it’s not really about “religion,” whatever that means). A bit from the beginning, which fortuitously uses some barbecue metaphors in honor of Independence Day: What can the minority in a democracy […]
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I was delighted to speak with Anton Sorkin, Director: Law Student Ministries at the Christian Legal Society and Affiliate Professor at Trinity Law School, about several things in his podcast, “Cross & Gavel”: my own background and how I got interested in law and religion as a field, as well as the past, present, and […]
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It was a great honor and pleasure for Kevin and me to host my friend and former colleague, Professor Mark Movsesian of St. John’s Law School. In this episode of Sub Deo, we discuss some of the most contentious and emotionally fraught cases in the law and religion canon–the wedding-vendor cases–pitting the rights of the […]
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That’s by and large the subject of our discussion on this new podcast, as Kevin and I chatted about some comments he will offer in response to Jonathan Gienapp’s “Against Constitutional Originalism” at a conference at Yale. It gave us a chance to revisit one of my favorite old cases, Calder v. Bull (1798), and […]
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