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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Hall |George Hawley |David Goldman |John O. McGinnis
George Hawley is one of the best students of contemporary political conservativism and the Alt-Right. His recent Law & Liberty piece on American Christian nationalism does not disappoint.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Hall |Jesse Smith |Samuel Gregg |Titus Techera
A moderately informed observer of American politics in the 2020s might be forgiven for perceiving Christian nationalism to be an imminent and existential threat to our political order.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
e-know.ca | Mark Hall
By Mark HallOp-Ed CommentaryAlberta has a science-based grizzly bear recovery strategy and conflict response plan. The conflict response plan emphasizes mitigation and prevention. This plan has a series of response matrices that guide wildlife officials on what to do with bears with a pattern of escalating conflict history or offensive behavior towards people. The matrices include aspects of grizzly bear biology that are linked to their conservation.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Adam J. MacLeod |Mark Hall |Graham McAleer |James Hartley
On March 8, 2022, police officers in Bullhead City, Arizona, arrested Norma Thornton for serving home-cooked meals in a park near her home. The city charged her with violating an ordinance that essentially prohibits anyone from sharing food on public property for charitable purposes. Under that ordinance, individuals may share food on public property for any purpose whatsoever, so long as their motivations are not charitable or they are charging money. Thornton was not trying to profit in any way.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Paul Mueller |Mark Hall |Christopher M Parry |John Grove
When Americans think about religious liberty, our minds naturally turn to the protections offered by the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This amendment, and related federal legislation, offer important protections, but there are numerous areas in which states are free to protect, or not protect, religious liberty.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
wng.org | Mark Hall
The Ten Commandments have long been understood as articulating central religious and moral duties accepted by almost everyone (at least until recently) in western civilization. They are also considered a core foundation of western jurisprudence. One would think that even an ardent atheist wouldn’t object to students being exposed to, and even perhaps even being taught about, this important text.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
acton.org | Mark Hall
According to Ron Swanson, the gruff libertarian of the TV show Parks and Recreation, “History began on July 4, 1776. Everything else was a mistake.” Andrew Wilson partially agrees, although he focuses on the year rather than the day: “The big idea of this book is that 1776, more than any other year in the last millennium, is the year that made us who we are.”Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian Westis a sweeping book with a strong thesis.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | Mark Hall
Wilson was born in Carskerdo, Scotland, in 1742. He received a solid classical education that enabled him to win a scholarship to the University of St. Andrews. Wilson studied there for four years before apprenticing briefly as an attorney and then attending the University of Glasgow where he may have heard lectures by Adam Smith and Thomas Reid.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | Mark Hall
Roger Sherman was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1721. Shortly after the death of his father in 1741, he moved to New Milford, Connecticut, where he worked as a cobbler, surveyor, and store owner. Sherman never went to college, but he was a voracious reader. He taught himself advanced mathematics and, in 1750, he began publishing a popular almanac which was issued annually or biannually until 1761. Sherman later studied law and was admitted to the Litchfield bar in 1754.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Kody W. Cooper |Justin Dyer |Mark Hall |Theodore Dalrymple
Some conservatives lament—and many progressives celebrate—the myth that America’s founders were deists, theistic rationalists, or even atheists who were influenced by modern, secular ideas.
