R. J. Snell

2 months ago | 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.

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 | 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.

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.

Dec 2, 2024 | lawliberty.org | R. J. Snell |David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds

American institutions of higher learning, perhaps especially the most selective of them, are failing to help students become tolerant, reflective, and respectful of different viewpoints. Intolerance and dogmatism are common, resulting in censorship, cancel culture, unreasonable limits on free speech, unlawful protests, and violence. Student dogmatism is enabled by faculty orthodoxies, of this, there is little doubt.