“There’s a gap in between
There’s a gap where we meet
Where I end and you begin”  - Radiohead
Roger Scruton is coming to give the next lecture at Vanderbilt in the Democracy and Moral Conviction series.  While, to put it mildly, Scruton’s arguments and rhetorical tactics lend me to think I should expect my first encounter with [...]

Last week at Vanderbilt, I sat in on a course at Vanderbilt on Deliberative Democracy and Religion, that is being co taught by Dr. Talisse of the philosophy department and Professor Goldberg of the Law School.  There was a discussion, that got somewhat heated (only because I could not control my tone due to excessive [...]

Julian finds himself in an interesting firestorm… well, one that I find interesting only insofar as it is curious as to why anyone would care about the private religious beliefs of academics in the first place. 
The only reasons to find the research question of  "why do academics disproportionately not believe in God?" an interesting [...]

I am not a law student, but I am marrying one.  From what I understand from secondhand sources, I have a lot of points of agreement with legal realism, which, as I understand it, claims that the law is used to achieve instrumental purposes, and not, to represent universal claims of justice and be consistent [...]