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What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…avid Blight tells the story of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by newly freed blacks in Charleston, South Carolina memorializing dead Union troops. In Joplin, Missouri, residents mourned those lost in the tornado. The Department of Homeland Security has ended a post-9/11 registration program that required Arab and Muslim men to register with the government, but not before tangling many Muslim immigrants up in legal proceedings. The Muslim Broth…

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…centage of Muslims in its population is not the UK, France, or Germany but Bulgaria. Yet you never hear about Bulgaria’s “Muslim question,” for its Muslims are native Turks and Pomaks who have been living in that country for centuries. As for the Arab Spring, I am of course very supportive of it, for it is toppling or challenging the dictators who oppressed Arab societies for decades. (Right now, I am keeping my fingers crossed for the fall of the…

The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause

By Bruce Ledewitz

…elevant, which is why the Westboro Church case will be decided strictly on free speech grounds and not as a free exercise case. Smith was immediately unpopular and congressional efforts to overturn it by statute met with limited success, leaving federal government actions that substantially burden religious practice subject to the compelling state interest test, but state and local laws exempt. The funeral privacy interest in Snyder is a generall…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

Dear Scientists: Please Stop Bashing Free Will!

By John Horgan

…onsibility for ourselves rather than consign our fate to our genes or God. Free will works better than any other single criterion for gauging the vitality of a life, or a society. Choices, freely made, are what make life meaningful. When people doubt free will, they are more likely to behave badly. After reading a passage from a book that challenged the validity of free will, students were more likely to cheat on a mathematics exam. Others were le…

Pence Defends US Immigration Policy in Guatemala … Using Scripture

By Daniel Schultz

…e in Cleveland for a sunnier reign in Los Angeles. Oh, and another: always bet on the Trump administration to take the stupidest possible position. Unlike LeBron, who is after all only human, that’s a gamble you can take to the bank week after week. For example, after all the uproar over Jeff Sessions’ use of Romans 13 to defend the extravagant cruelty of separating migrant families at the US border, you might be tempted to bet against administrat…

Update: Sofia Pride Safe Despite Threats

By Peter Montgomery

The Sofia Pride parade in Bulgaria’s capital city took place on Saturday under threat of violence. But according to news reports, the march was mostly peaceful. The Christian Science Monitor reports that the estimated 1,500 to 2,000 marchers were protected from about 200 counter-protesters by 600 police. Also in attendance were several ambassadors, including American Ambassador James Warlick, who told a Bulgarian TV station, “We should all live o…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…ly well armed members of the anti-fascist John Brown Club). Restriction of Freedom Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy theories about governments restricting individual freedoms have been prevalent for many years and often gain traction during periods of social and political change or uncertainty. Here are some notable recent examples: 15-Minute Cities misinterprets the urban planning concept of ‘15-minute cities,‘ in which essential services and ameni…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…GOP, there’s no statistically significant difference in support for Trump between White evangelicals who are the most tightly connected to churches and those who are staying home on Sundays. But it remains true that six in ten White evangelicals continue to hold a favorable view of Trump, regardless of how often they go to church. Pew’s 2020 validated voters study found that two-thirds of White evangelicals who voted in 2020 attended religious se…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right (Yale UP, 2024) examines how the long-forgotten ties between conservative stalwarts like William F. Buckley and open Nazis like George Lincoln Rockwell are indicative of a “popular front” approach on political coalition building on the Right. The “Reich” scandal, Walsh tells RD, fits neatly into this framework: Clearly Donald Trump [himself] didn’t create that ad, but somebody in Tr…