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Setting the Course

Dinesh D'Souza Ken Starr John H. Garvey

Dangerous Christians There are different ways to respond to a crisis. The first is to bellyache about it. We can document what’s wrong with our institutions, expose the bad...

The Real Reason for Religious Freedom

John H. Garvey

Why do we protect freedom of religion? The commonsense answer, which I think hits close to the truth, is that we protect it because religion is important. That simple...