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Our Best Stuff on Kamala Harris’ Economic Plan and Turmoil in the Trump Campaign

Aug 17, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Will Rinehart |Michael Reneau |John Inazu

Harris has plenty of goodies for voters, and Trump has a new adviser. Published August 17, 2024 Hello and happy Saturday. If the first months of the 2024 presidential election felt like a slow-placed low-grade horror movie, filling viewers with dread along a plodding path to an unhappy ending, and the month of July felt like a historical documentary in the making, August is shaping up as a sitcom.
Dispatch Live: U.K. Riots and Countdown to the DNC

Aug 13, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Chris Stirewalt |Joseph Roche |Michael Reneau |John Inazu

Published August 13, 2024 Kevin Williamson will host tonight’s episode of Dispatch Live as we get an update on what’s happening across the pond with guest Annalise DeVries. David Drucker and Charles will discuss their reporting plans for the Democratic National Convention and the state of the presidential race. To wrap things up, Grayson will give us a breakdown of what’s happening in Bangladesh.
Not Everything Is Cancel Culture

Aug 11, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |John Inazu |Jake Meador |Warren Smith

But it’s important—especially for religious institutions—to know why. By and Published August 11, 2024 Happy Sunday! Just want to affirm the truthfulness of the meme below for any past, present, or prospective writers for us at The Dispatch. Except for that one writer. You know who you are. A recent Newsweek story proclaiming “Conservative Campuses Are Facing Campus Culture Problems” became a topic of conversation in The Dispatch’s Slack channel last week, and for good reason.
Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

Jun 7, 2024 | thebanner.org | John Inazu |Lorilee Craker

I’ve always thought of myself as someone who sees shades of gray, but I realized that, when it comes to issues I feel passionately about, I can sometimes be as rigidly black and white as the people with whom I disagree. John Inazu, a law professor at Washington University, helped me realize this in his thoughtful book, Learning to Disagree. Following the academic calendar year, Inazu asks a question in each chapter, such as:August: How Do We Learn Empathy? September: Can We Know What’s Fair?
Loving the University

Jun 3, 2024 | plough.com | John Inazu

One of the central motivations of my academic career has been to ask how Christians can flourish in nonreligious colleges and universities. I would like to think that Christians can actually model some of what the university purports to be. Five years ago, I founded The Carver Project, a faculty-based ministry at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Warren Smith’s Quarterly List of Books Worth Noting-May 2024

May 31, 2024 | ministrywatch.com | Aaron M. Renn |John Inazu |Marvin Olasky |Nancy French

Editor’s Note: Most Saturdays we will feature this “Editor’s Notebook” column. MinistryWatch President Warren Smith will offer his opinion on stories in the week’s news or, sometimes, offer a behind-the-scenes look at how and why we do what we do. However, once a quarter, we use the ‘Notebook” for Warren Smith’s list of books either released in the past quarter, or those he just got around to reading this quarter. To read last quarter’s list, published in February, click here.
Learning to Disagree - Key Life

May 25, 2024 | keylife.org | John Inazu |Guest Bloggers

by John InazuOur next class session tackles religious influence in public school curricula. To tee up this discussion, I assign a somewhat dated but smartly written article titled “How Christian Were the Founders?” The article chronicles the textbook selection battles in Texas. The state of Texas orders so many public school textbooks—forty-eight million annually—that it effectively sets the market for the rest of the country.
First Amendment Scrutiny: Realigning First Amendment Doctrine Around Government Interests

Mar 7, 2024 | brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu | John Inazu

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Spiritual Formation and Political Engagement

Feb 2, 2024 | johninazu.substack.com | John Inazu

Today’s edition of Some Assembly Required is an interview with my friend Michael Wear. Michael is the founder of the Center for Christianity and Public Life. His latest book isThe Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life. John Inazu: Your new book is directed at Christians who are looking for guidance about how to engage in politics and public life. But it turns out to focus a great deal on personal formation as well.
Some Heated Rhetoric on Religious Liberty

Jan 19, 2024 | johninazu.substack.com | John Inazu

The 2024 presidential campaign is underway, with Donald Trump handily winning the Iowa Caucus. Pundits are already calling attention to the role of evangelical voters in that contest and in upcoming primaries. On Tuesday, law professor and conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt penned an opinion piece on Fox News exploring Trump’s appeal to those voters. Hewitt chose to frame his piece around a Washington Post article written over the weekend that similarly focused on evangelical voters.