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lawliberty.org | Gregory M. Dickinson |R. J. Snell |Edward Whelan |Helen Dale
Digital tools have completely revolutionized online commerce, mostly for the better. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all product offerings and static storefronts. Modern online businesses thrive by responding to customer needs at an individual level. Using massive databases of historical browsing and shopping data, companies construct detailed consumer profiles, which they then deploy to create online shopping experiences tailored to the preferences of their customers.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Mustafa Akyol |Jeffrey Bristol |R. J. Snell |Edward Whelan
I was glad to read the review of my new book, The Islamic Moses, in Law & Liberty, penned by Dr. Jeffrey Bristol. I was also glad to see that he praised at least half of the book, where I explored the religious connections between Judaism and Islam. Yet he also raised several criticisms of the other half, where I examine the shared history of Jews and Muslims. Here is my response to those criticisms.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Eli Rubin |David Goldman |Edward Whelan |Mark Pulliam
The proportion of Americans who profess a religion is falling, but this decline is concentrated among liberal denominations. Traditional religion is gaining ground, among Jews as well as Christians. Does this trend constitute a repudiation of modernity? Eli Rubin’s new book, Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity, makes a contrarian claim: Jewish philosophical speculation, or Kabbalah, offers a path out of the paradoxes and contradictions of modern science.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | James Hunter |R. J. Snell |Edward Whelan |Helen Dale
It is widely accepted that America is fundamentally fractured, and there is no shortage of books diagnosing the causes of our wobbling solidarity. Despite this mood of loss, even despair, most of these books maintain the typically American can-do spirit—they’re proposals as much as diagnostics.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Edward Whelan |Helen Dale |Tyler Hummel |David Goldman
The Sherman Act (1890) declares “every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations” (15 U.S.C. §1; emphasis added) to be illegal.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Michael Lucchese |Richard Jordan |David Schaefer |Edward Whelan
At least since Edmund Burke, the right has looked askance at mixing mathematics and politics. The French revolutionaries and philosophes, with their elegantly geometric counties and their 10-hour days and their Year Zeroes, were trying to squeeze the unruly contours of human nature into their godlessly oversimplified concepts. But out of the crooked timber of humanity, many conservatives insist, nothing precise was ever calculated.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Andy Smarick |Edward Whelan |Helen Dale |Paul Moreno
Many Americans are frustrated by elite private universities. We’ve seen their hostility to diversity of opinion and free speech, politically imbalanced faculty and administrators, galling instances of antisemitism, enormous costs, unfair admissions processes, and more. For such reasons, public approval of higher education had been low and falling for some time, particularly on America’s right.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Mustafa Akyol |Jeffrey Bristol |R. J. Snell |Edward Whelan
The Islamic Moses by Mustafa Akyol addresses a sometimes bitter division between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. These religious traditions present a potentially fraught taxonomy; a sibling rivalry ardent with the gangs-manship of two brothers gathering against the third. Today, “Judeo-Christianity” is configured against Islam. This alliance isn’t inevitable. Sometimes, as Akyol observes, the hybrid was “Judeo-Islam.” Akyol’s book attempts to recapture this alliance.
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2 months ago | 
eppc.org | Edward Whelan |Henry Olsen |Patrick Brown |Francis X. Maier
Published January 30, 2025 Law & Liberty The position of Attorney General has changed dramatically since its inception in the Judiciary Act of 1789. The First Congress assigned important but limited duties to the Attorney General: to represent the United States in the Supreme Court and to advise the president and Cabinet officers on questions of law.
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lawliberty.org | Christopher Cox |John O. McGinnis |Edward Whelan |Helen Dale
No president has fallen from Olympus as far and as fast as Woodrow Wilson. Ranked approximately sixth in the 1990s and 2000s, he has slipped to about fifteenth today in polls by historians. Princeton University has stripped his name from its prestigious School of Public and International Affairs. Democratic politicians usually omit him from their pantheon of heroes.
