Setting politics aside to start with: I’m unsurprisingly a strong supporter of the original Religious Freedom Restoration Act and its state-level counterparts that sought to protect religious believers against state…
Hi folks. I thought I’d throw up a reminder for anyone interested that Bowling Green State University is hosting a conference, “The Scope of Religious Exemptions,” on April 17th and…
I’ve recently finished an early ms of Gerald Gaus’s next book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, which argues, among other things, that we need to know the shape of the…
that Ted Cruz was born in Canada: I will never stop being slightly surprised and slightly fascinated that the Framers of the US Constitution wrote in a “native-born citizen” requirement…
Here is a handy dandy list of the main arguments I’ve encountered for compulsory voting. Alas, none are sound. Also, two arguments against compulsory voting, both of which are sound….
Recently, Obama advocated compulsory voting in a town hall meeting in Ohio. Since I decisively refuted the case for compulsory voting last year, I take it Obama doesn’t read the…