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The day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I was teaching a college class on science, religion and magic. Our class was comparing the Salem witch trials of the 1690s with the McCarthy hearings of the early 1950s, when U.S. democratic processes were eclipsed by the Red Scare of purported communist…

Not only is it untrue that the city of Hamburg has banned music lessons, but most Muslims have embedded music in their culture, religion and daily lives.

I'm serializing my forthcoming Emory Law Journal article titled Addiction to Constitutionally Protected Activity: Speech, Press, and Religion. In my… The post Addiction to Speech and Press: Content-Neutral vs. Content-Based Restrictions appeared first on Reason.com.

The sequel turns to religious horror in a way that puts the movie at odds with itself.

“He was extremely nice at first,” Johns said. “But when the conversation turned to religion, I just wanted to get off the door and away from him.”

Monty Python comedian Eric Idle has been remembering his late friend George Harrison, revealing they could discuss anything but they could never agree on the value of religion.

I'm serializing my forthcoming Emory Law Journal article titled Addiction to Constitutionally Protected Activity: Speech, Press, and Religion. In my earlier… The post Addiction to Speech and Press appeared first on Reason.com.

I'm serializing my forthcoming Emory Law Journal article titled Addiction to Constitutionally Protected Activity: Speech, Press, and Religion. In my… The post Minors' Religious Practices Are Legally and Constitutionally Protected Against Regulations Aimed at Preventing "Addiction" appeared first on Reason.com.

Many factors can shape how someone views abortion – gender, age and education, to name a few. Around the world, however, religious belief is the most powerful predictor that someone will disapprove, as I document in my 2025 book, “Fetal Positions.” Faith traditions’ teachings about abortion vary – and there…