Molly Worthen, in the New York Times' Campaign Stops blog, considers the undertones of recent conservative claims regarding the Obama…
Decoding religious freedom claims
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The world that Smith made
There is much that could be said about the history of the Catholic Church and its dedication to the defense…
Hosanna-Tabor in the religious freedom Panopticon
Michel Foucault famously describes Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon as a “cruel, ingenious cage” to be understood not as a “dream building…
Religious freedom, minority rights, and geopolitics
Conventional wisdom has it that religious liberty is a universally valid principle, enshrined in national constitutions and international charters and…
Believing in religious freedom
Like a good movie, the story of international religious freedom offers something for everyone. It pits cowardly oppressors against heroic…
The Amish Madoff
The New York Times reports on a member of an Amish community in Ohio accused of running a Bernie Madoff-like…
NYC religious groups vacate public schools and march in protest
The past few months have been a wild ride for church-state issues in the U.S. The Hosanna-Tabor decision upheld the…
“The Church”
The last sentence of the Court’s opinion in Hosanna-Tabor announces the dogma that binds the majority opinion. Affirming for the…
Religious freedom defeats secular law
Secular law lost unanimously in the Supreme Court of the United States last week. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)…
Debate on the state of U.S. religious freedom
In its Room for Debate forum, The New York Times recently published a debate on the state of religious freedom…