New Book: “A Tale of Two Governments: Church Discipline, the Courts, and the...
Robert J. Renaud and Lael D. Weinberger, A Tale of Two Governments: Church Discipline, the Courts, and the Separation of Church and State (Dunrobin Publishing, 2012). Here are relevant websites that...
View ArticleLarson’s Creationism in the Classroom: Cases, Statutes, and Commentary | New...
This casebook explores fundamental legal issues relating to how scientific and religious concepts of biological origins should be presented in public-school biology courses. Although numerous legal...
View ArticleThe Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public
Harvard University Press: Sarah Igo tells the story, for the first time, of how opinion polls, man-in-the-street interviews, sex surveys, community studies, and consumer research transformed the United...
View ArticleClarke Forsythe’s book on Roe v. Wade
Richard Myers at Mirror of Justice: I just read an advance copy of Clarke Forsythe's excellent new book on Roe v. Wade. Here is the Amazon link....
View ArticleUnprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare. | New Book
Joshua Blackman at Volokh Conspiracy: Hi everyone. Many thanks to Eugene, Randy, and everyone else at VC for giving me the keys to the Conspiracy to talk about my new book, Unprecedented: The...
View ArticleMcGinnis/Rappaport’s Originalism and the Good Constitution—Part 1 | Ed Whelan...
Ed Whelan at National Review: As they sum up the argument, “If we are to be faithful to law, we must follow the law’s original meaning.” . . . I find much more appealing the normative argument for...
View ArticleClarke Forsythe’s New Chronicle of Roe v. Wade
Ed Whelan at National Review: The weekend issue of the Wall Street Journal features Jeffrey Rosen’s favorable review of Clarke D. Forsythe’s important new book, Abuse of Discretion: The Inside Story of...
View ArticleRoe v. Wade Was an “Abuse of Discretion,” Exercise in Raw Judicial Power |...
Steven Aden at LifeNews: Scholars, activists, and others who think they know all they need to know about the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade should pick up and read Clarke Forsythe’s...
View ArticleForget the Enlightenment—Focus on the Family | AWR Hawkins at The University...
AWR Hawkins at The University Bookman: And while certain regions stand as exceptions to this fading influence, the claim that Christianity has come down in authority is demonstrable. How did we get...
View ArticleExposing ‘The Global War Against Christians’
National Review: This “global war on Christians is in many ways the greatest story never told about the 21st century,” John L. Allen Jr., Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter,...
View ArticleThe price of political ignorance: More government | George F. Will
George F. Will at the Washington Post: In “Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter” (Stanford University Press),Ilya Somin of George Mason University law school argues that...
View ArticleFirst Things reviews Gene Robinson’s case for same-sex “marriage”
Dennis Di Mauro at First Things: "While Robinson served as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, he surprisingly uses far more secular arguments than theological ones. The religious ones he does use are...
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