Jeffrey Bristol

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.

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.

Oct 28, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Jeffrey Bristol |Titus Techera |Auguste Meyrat |James Hankins

Courts are America’s most insulated political institutions. They’re insulated because they are the branch of government furthest removed from the sovereign people. Federal courts are especially removed: judges are not elected but are instead appointed by the President who himself is elected indirectly. Following their appointment, judges are then confirmed by the Senate, meaning they are three steps removed from the popular source of authority.

Jun 6, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Jeffrey Bristol |James Hankins |John O. McGinnis |Titus Techera

June 6, 2024 To make polyamory work, some are willing to destroy the very thing that makes relationships worthwhile: the person. Recently the New York Times ran an article about a social artifact that uniquely characterizes our times: the twenty-something polycule. A “polycule,” for the uninitiated, is a brutal portmanteau of “polyamorous” and “molecule,” or, it seems, the unit of an ever-growing erotic mass. It’s like a couple but fractally more grotesque.

Dec 19, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Jeffrey Bristol |Colleen A. Sheehan |Aaron Rhodes |David Goldman

For those who have had personal or professional involvement with Islam and the Islamic world, one of the chief blessings of the end of the War on Terror was the hope that tropes like “Islam is a violent religion” would finally fall by the wayside. David Goldman’s recent Law & Liberty essay, “Is Islam a Violent Religion?” shows that it is not to be.