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  • Book Review: Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Liberty0

    Robert Louis Wilken, Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Liberty (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019). Do the modern foundations of religious liberty owe more to early Christianity than to Enlightenment thinking? In his ambitious book, historian Robert Louis Wilken seeks to reveal the role that Christianity has played in the development

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  • A Matter of Interpretation0

    When it comes to free exercise and establishment clause doctrine, has the Court delivered a triumph or a tragedy?  Illustrations by Jon Krause Examining recent cases and doctrinal developments interpreting the free exercise clause and the establishment clause of the First Amendment reminds me of two lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Macbeth himself states in the

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  • Why Our Story Matters: Interview with Philip Gorski0

    What is the story of our nation? How did it begin, and what is its destiny? What values define what it means to be American? And does it matter how we answer those questions? In their recently released book, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (Oxford University

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  • The Palmer Raids0

    A tale of immigrants, free speech, and mass hysteria in the Land of the Free.  New York City, November 1919  A mathematics class is not typically a setting for subversion. Bespeckled teacher Michael Lavrowsky was busy conducting an algebra lesson for Russian immigrants at Manhattan’s Russian People’s House. Then 50 years old, the studious Lavrowsky

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  • The Curious Case of a Misunderstood Idea0

    The secular state—a hallmark of Western liberal democracy—is under attack from both ends of the political spectrum. What does this mean for religious freedom? A renowned Australian theologian investigates.  Religious liberty is paramount for any multicultural democracy. That is because religious liberty interlocks with other liberties relating to freedoms of speech and association. The right

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  • Perverse Optimism0

    At a Capitol Hill meeting some years ago I heard a report that sounded utterly far-fetched. It was during a regular weekly gathering of human rights and religious freedom advocates, each representing a different government agency, nongovernmental organization, or faith group. Toward the end of that day’s agenda someone rose to speak. His concern? Organ

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  • Patriotism Health Check0

    Illustration by Robert Hunt Love of country or harmful nationalism? National pride or idolatry?  Amid all the political acrimony of recent years, no concept has been the target of more debate and fury than “Christian nationalism.”  A steady stream of books and articles have blamed Christian nationalists for all manner of ills in America, ills

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  • Jokers, Clowns, and Purists0

    Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right; here I am, stuck in the middle with you,” sang Scottish folk-rock band Stealers Wheel. It’s a song that has been used by everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Sacha Baron Cohen to put a bit of punch into their movies. It also pops up with

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  • A Duty to Kill?0

    Illustration by Michael Glenwood A California law gives a new spin to the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm.” The test results come back, and they’re not good. Your doctor explains that the cancer has advanced and that the chemo and radiation can do nothing, at this point, to help you. You probably have less

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