Spreading Enlightenment Ideas Beyond Borders
An interview with Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
Bob Bryant was infected with COVID-19 while on vacation and died. A news story tries to link that to church services.
Earlier in November, surveillance footage captured officers beating a man for not wearing a mask.
"So what?." asks David Harsanyi at the National Review, quite correctly.
In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a key case currently before the Supreme Court, there is a strong reason to rule for the government that doesn't apply in most other religious-liberty disputes.
The members of Steve Bannon's international circle share an outlandish spiritual-historic vision, but their threat to liberty is more mundane.
His statement doesn’t change Catholic Church teachings, but it’s an indicator of big cultural shifts.
A good teens-and-creatures movie, and a deep dive into a glorious fake cult
Occultists, social justice warriors, and techno-utopians may not look like the Christians of yore, but they're more religious than they realize.
By virtue of representing the correct vision of the good, these conservatives say, they have every right to use the coercive power of the state to interfere with others' choices.
'Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.'
Is the Kanye 2020 platform designed to steal votes from Joe Biden?
Plus: Biden echoes Trump on trade, tech ties to cops revealed, and more...
The paper's claim reflects the same arbitrary distinction between religious and secular activities that churches are challenging in court.
SCOTUS rules 7-2 in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru.
The decision is an important victory against government discrimination on the basis of religion.
America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward.
The Equality Act would significantly expand government power and it also threatens religious freedom.
As SCOTUS declines to issue an injunction, the chief justice says the state's COVID-19 control measures seem consistent with the First Amendment.
They’re still not being treated the same as secular places of gathering, so a legal challenge continues.
If the Mall of America can reopen on June 1, why can’t the Cathedral of St. Paul?
Allowing schools and malls to reopen, but not places of worship, would raise civil rights issues
On the same day Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews came out for a funeral, hundreds were gathering elsewhere in New York City to watch a military flyover.
Plus: Signal will leave the U.S. market if EARN IT passes, Justin Amash blasts Michigan shutdown orders, and more...
The annual retelling of the Exodus story reminds us not to take freedom for granted.
I'll say it again: "Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."
State lawmakers want to override local zoning codes to let churches and other nonprofits build affordable housing on their own land.
An interesting analysis from Prof. Mark Movsesian (St. John's).
The pioneering psychedelic researcher, Timothy Leary collaborator, and New Age seeker exemplified America's postwar turn to individualism.
Plus: the foundations bankrolling bad tech policy, they is the word of the year, and more...
Friday A/V Club: The 40th anniversary of Life of Brian's British debut—and of a legendary TV debate
An anthropologist examines secret societies, revolutionary movements, and esoteric ideas.
What’s at stake in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue.
Justices rule that invitations are expressive speech and businesses cannot be compelled to write messages they oppose.
Harry Potter and the Baffling Return of Religious Panic
An economist and a science fiction author discuss cryogenics, mythology, philanthropy, fragmentation, and simulation.
Editor in Chief Kyle Mann talks about being taken literally by fact checkers, whether any subject (even a mass shooting) is off limits, and the libertarian sensibility of his humor.