Religious devotion, the keystone of ordered liberty in the West, has been under systematic assault by anti-religious forces Barr called an ‘atheocracy.’

A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday turned back a court challenge by parents who wish to be informed when their child wants to identify as the opposite sex.

In a pair of decisions in the past week, the Supreme Court took a major step forward in both education and religious liberty by ruling that states can’t discriminate against religion in education in the name of erecting a wall of separation between church and state.

Three Maine families, the Institute for Justice (IJ) and the First Liberty Institute (FLI) have filed a legal challenge to Maine’s exclusion of religious options from the state’s school choice program.

By: Carrie Campbell Severino – nationalreview.com – June 21, 2022 The First Amendment never uses the term “separation of church and state.” It instead contains two religion clauses: one that prevents Congress (or, since the 14th Amendment, the states) from passing any law establishing a state church or “respecting” such an establishment; and the other protecting the free exercise of...

By: Ilya Shapiro – wsj.com – June 6, 2022 Dean William Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the IDEAA implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy. Instead of participating in that slow-motion firing, I’m resigning. IDEAA speciously found...

  By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 6, 2022 But Mr. Shapiro was encouraged by dean William Treanor and the school’s Speech and Expression Policy, which promises to defend dissenting voices on campus. His painful education has been discovering that some speech is more protected than others. In late January, shortly before he was supposed to start at...

A 1,000-person YouGov survey last August found that just 19% of the American public thinks higher education is going in the right direction. About half (49%) say it’s going in the wrong direction. The rest weren’t sure.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – April 21, 2022 During her appearance on the Pod Save America podcast last week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested that before August 31 of this year, the Biden administration intends to make “a decision . . . about canceling student debt.” Psaki’s asseveration was thrown in casually — as an...

A Michigan university accused one of its students of breaching the school’s code of conduct because she talked about receiving a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine requirement on Facebook.