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Tribes, Trolls, and the Power of Technology 0

How the digital world is remaking our political order. Illustration by Mary Haasdyk Vooys For more than a decade I have worked at the intersection of the two things we are told not to bring up at holiday gatherings: religion and politics. These topics often elicit visceral reactions—especially conversations about politics, which at times take

A Right to Remain Silent 0

The Supreme Court case of 303 Creative v. Elenis was cast as a standoff between religious free exercise and LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination. But what did the Court really decide? Illustration by Jon Krause In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own.—John Trenchard and

The Neglected Tale of America’s First Religious Freedom Law 0

Tracing the origins and legacy of the Maryland Act of Toleration of 1649 (This painting by Emmanuel Leutze entitled “The Founding of Maryland” (1634) depicts the Piscatawy Indians meeting with the colonists in St. Mary’s City. The figure on the left is believed to be Jesuit missionary Andrew White. In front of him, the chief

Doing Unto Others and the Limits of Democracy 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
In 2015, a few months before he died, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia spoke to law students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the question-and-answer period a student asked Scalia whether courts have a responsibility to protect minorities that can’t win rights through the political process. Scalia’s response was typically blunt. No, he said.
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Baptizing Politics 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
Christian nationalism in global perspective.Illustrations by Alex Nabaum In 1992 Benjamin Barber suggested that the post–cold war world would be shaped by a contest between “Jihad” and “McWorld.”1 Jihad was the name he picked not just for Islamist movements but for all political movements founded on cultural, religious, or national particularity. “McWorld” was his name
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Religious Freedom Delivered 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
The story of a mail carrier, his Sabbath, and a five-decade legal odyssey to strengthen the rights of all people of faith in America’s workplaces. When Gerald Groff returned from the mission field and took a part-time job as a mail carrier near his home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2012, he had no reason
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