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The Best Thanksgiving Film
Thanksgiving doesn’t inspire many movies. Yet it has a central role in one of the best movies ever made, about Thanksgiving or any other holiday: Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny...
The West Should Not Abandon Armenia
More than 120,000 Christian Armenians continue to face the threat of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno Karabakh, a region inside Azerbaijan. Over the past few weeks, the E.U., the U.S.,...
Defining Religion in the Court
Here is a snapshot that captures an increasingly important issue in law and religion in the United States: In August 2021, four parents sued a school district outside Philadelphia...
A Fear-Filled Advent for Armenian Christians
Christians around the world are marking Advent, the period in the church calendar that anticipates Christmas. People are decorating their homes and schoolkids are rehearsing their lines for annual...
What’s at Stake in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
Last week, the Supreme Court heard argument in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the latest in a series of wedding vendor cases that have been percolating in the courts....
Why the Rationalist Religion Failed in America
In the Church of Saint Thomas Paine:A Religious History of American Secularismby leigh eric schmidtprinceton, 272 pages, $27.95 In The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, historian Leigh Eric Schmidt...
Why the Dobbs Leak Is Dangerous
This week’s leak of the draft majority opinion in Dobbs, the Mississippi abortion case, is unprecedented. Leaks from the Court have occurred before, but this leak is different, a...
A Narrow Victory for Religious Liberty
Last week, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Catholic adoption services case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. The case concerned whether the city of Philadelphia could...
The Myth of the Value-Neutral Market
When liberalism was young, it had great faith in markets—specifically, the ability of markets to ease social conflict. The theory had a French name, the doux commerce thesis, and...
America and Armenia
On April 24, in the annual White House statement commemorating the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians in Ottoman Turkey during World War I, President Joe Biden...
Armenia’s Future
After 45 days of fierce fighting, the Second Karabakh War ended last month with a Russian-brokered ceasefire and an Armenian defeat. As I wrote in October, this war between...
Christianity and the Future of American Conservatism
One day last year, on a trip to Washington, D.C., I visited two museums: the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of the Bible. These two museums sit...
Why the Senate Should Confirm Judge Barrett
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. Her confirmation seems very likely....
Christian Armenia Under Attack
Last week, Azerbaijan reignited its long-simmering war with Armenia over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The region, known in Armenian as Artsakh, has a Christian Armenian population of about 150,000,...
The Roberts Court Attempts a Compromise
In the October 2019 Term that ended last week, the Supreme Court decided a handful of cases with implications for religious liberty: Bostock, the Title VII employment discrimination case;...