Religion & the Court: A New Beginning?

by Mary Ann Glendon

Religion remains a divisive issue on the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1992

Looking at Islam After Kipling and Hesse

by Richard John Neuhaus

Books on Islam, we are told, are enjoying brisk sales. For reasons related to the imperialist past of those countries, intellectuals in England and France have generally paid more attention to Islam than have Americans. Apart from academic specialists, American interest in Islam has been limited . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1991

Editorial: The Politics of Religious Freedom: A Remedy Reconsidered

by The Editors

Many of our readers have been intensely and rightly concerned about threatening turns in the Supreme Court’s already monumentally confused rulings on religious freedom. Things came to a head with the April 1990 decision in the case of Employment Division v. Smith, otherwise known as “the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991

Religious Freedom Denied

by Richard F. Duncan

Imagine a country in which religious freedom is trammeled, and another country in which religious freedom is flourishing. Imagine a multitude of religious refugees fleeing the former nation and flocking to the latter. Until quite recently, most Americans would probably have been inclined in such a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1990