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  • The Real Problem With ”Project 2025”0

    The 2025 Presidential Transition Project has caused quite a stir since it was made public last April. This 887-page document stands apart from other position papers routinely churned out by Washington think tanks and advocacy groups. For a start, there’s the sheer size of the coalition that stands behind it: more than 80 conservative organizations,

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  • Back to the Future of Discovery0

    Fifteenth-century European geopolitics and a long-overdue conversation. We were just boys doing boy stuff. We crossed the country highway to each other’s front yards. We rode bikes together. We ran around with our dogs through the fields and woods around our homes. We played with magical sticks that morphed into swords, spears, guns, and whatever

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  • Pushing the Boundaries0

    Louisiana’s “In God We Trust” law tests the limits of religion in public schools. When Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom—from elementary school to college—the author of the bill claimed to be following a long-held tradition of displaying the national motto, most

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  • Case in Point Jan/Feb 20240

    “Speech Climate” On Campuses Declines Recent clashes between pro-Palestinian students and those supporting Israel—as well as a sharp increase in reports of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia on American college and university campuses—are fueling a national debate about free speech. But according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), on-campus free speech problems were already

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  • Reckoning With the Reach of the Ministerial Exception0

    Does this legal doctrine give faith-based schools essential religious liberty protection? Or is it a tool for discrimination? Controversy continues over the extent to which officials in religiously affiliated schools can require their employees to comply with the teachings of their faiths, especially if employees have agreed to do so in the employment contracts they

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  • Untying the Religious Liberty Knot0

    An interview with author and professor Thomas C. Berg Not too long ago, religious liberty was a cherished, bipartisan constitutional value. Even as late as 1993, both sides of the political aisle in Congress rallied to pass, almost unanimously, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, giving a considerable boost to federal religious-liberty protection. Three decades later,

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