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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Different Kinds of Truth Claims

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Are there? Yes, I believe so. I'm back writing for "Ordinary Times." My first post explores the difference between making an ...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Thomas S. Kidd and Barry Hankins: "The Baptist alliance with Thomas Jefferson that secured religious liberty"

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Check it out here . A taste: In 1776, long-persecuted Baptists hoped that the American Revolution would not only secure America’s liberty...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Rational Rant: Without God and the Bible Series

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Long story short: Numerous "Christian America" figures have spread spurious quotations, ones that tend to be chosen first because ...

Jacob Soll: "What do we owe the Enlightenment?"

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In The New Republic here . A taste: All this makes Vincenzo Ferrone’s newly translated book, The Enlightenment: History of an Idea , comp...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Forster on Barton on Locke:

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Warren Throckmorton has the details here . A taste: I [Throckmorton] asked Greg Forster, an expert on John Locke (see an earlier critique ...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Slate: "The Mysteries of the Masons"

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By Andrew Burt here . A taste: Freemasonry is thought to have originated in England and Scotland sometime in the 1500s as a trade organiz...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Fea: "David Barton on the American Bible Society"

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From John Fea here . A taste: Most of what [Barton] says about the founding of the American Bible Society is accurate, but he does not pa...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Volokh: "Is the United States of America a republic or a democracy?"

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Answer: I often hear people argue that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that’s a false dichotomy. A common definiti...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

Cult of the Supreme Being

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Today on Facebook, the legendary Lawrence Reed notes : On this date in 1794, the power-mad Maximilien Robespierre introduced the infamous...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Sandefur: "John Adams insists the American constitutions were not divinely inspired"

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We've seen this quotation before; but it's always worth a revisit. A taste: It will never be pretended that any persons employed ...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Hall on Stewart's "Nature's God"

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Mark David Hall has published a piece for the Spring 2015 issue (pp. 285-291) Christian Scholars Review entitled "A Failed Attempt at ...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Likko on My Post About Judges Making Law

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The website " Ordinary Times" published my post on judges making law to which contributor Burt Likko replied . His was a very lon...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Judges Making the Law (With a Little Blasphemy Discussion)

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We hear the term "judicial activism" often bandied about. The term has a number of different meanings, one of which is judges ...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Roundtable on the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

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The audio below is fairly crappy (alas). But these are the "go to" guys -- Kurt Lash (Illinois), Philip Hamburger (Columbia), and ...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Barnett v. Lash on whether the EC Incorporates on Originalist Grounds

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From Randy Barnett here . A taste: So you can imagine that I became a strong supporter of the separation of church and state. I still am...