Richard W. Garnett

Justice Clarence Thomas has observed that the Supreme Court’s decisions and doctrine having to do with religious freedom, church“state relations, and “religion in the public square” are in “hopeless disarray.” What accounts for this mess? The causes, no doubt, are many: For example, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Religion is necessarily a private and public . . . . Continue Reading »

Justice: Rights and Wrongs by Nicholas Wolterstorff Princeton University Press, 416 pages, $39.50 Nicholas Wolterstorff is a gifted moral philosopher and among the most eminent Christian scholars in any discipline. His project in Justice: Rights and Wrongs is to ground”to “account . . . . Continue Reading »

My friend and former colleague, Prof. Douglas Kmiec, opened his September 9, 2008 Chicago Tribune op-ed (“How Catholics can oppose abortion, back Obama”) with an endearing expression of respect for Chicago’s cardinal archbishop, Francis George. He then continued with his ongoing, . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in an opinion written by Judge (and famed law-and-religion scholar) Michael McConnell, issued its opinion in a case called Colorado Christian University v. Weaver. (Click here for more: . . . . Continue Reading »

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down recently a free-speech decision that is raising some eyebrows and might be of interest to readers. Of particular interest, perhaps, is the fact that the majority opinion in the case, Berger v. City of Seattle , was written by . . . . Continue Reading »

Religious Freedom and the Constitution by Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager Harvard University Press, 352 pages, $28.95 These might seem depressing days for our public conversations about religion and public life. The bookstores’ shelves are creaking with the sermons of smug . . . . Continue Reading »