Lawrence B. Glickman teaches American history at Cornell University. In this very interesting piece at Boston Review, he wonders why the Supreme Court continues to treat businesses as people. And why does the Court continue to favor the rights of businesses...
Hobby Lobby case
Can the Museum of the Bible Avoid Controversy?
In the past week I have done a few interviews with reporters about the Museum of the Bible, a Washington D.C. museum scheduled to open next month. I have written about the Museum before and with the opening less than...
Is Criticism of the Museum of the Bible Unfair?
Menachem Wecker asks this question in an article published yesterday at Religion News Service. Read it here. Such a question arises for several reasons: First, the Museum of the Bible, scheduled to open this Fall, is the project of the...
Is There Time for Candida Moss and Joel Baden to Add a Postscript to Their New Book on Hobby Lobby?
Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby is scheduled for release in the early fall. (I will be part of a panel on the book in November at the annual meeting of American Academy of Religion in Boston). I’ll bet...
The United States of Hobby Lobby
In October 2017, Joel Baden and Candida Moss will publish Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby (Princeton University Press). Here is the publisher’s description: Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded...
A Reader Responds to My Post on Russell Moore’s “Wall Street Journal” Piece on Religious Liberty
John Haas is one of the many thoughtful readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home, but unless you also follow me on Facebook you often don’t get to read his insightful commentary. (John seldom, if ever, posts in the...
Hobby Lobby is a Person But a Guantanamo Detainee Is Not
Guantanamo Bay Prison Interesting comparison here from Michael Peppard at dot.Commonweal. A taste: Five years ago I wrote two articles for Commonweal about religion at Guantanamo. The shorter follow-up dealt with Rasul v. Rumsfeld (and Rasul v. Myers), in which the plaintiffs appealed in part to the Religious...
The “Person” in American History
After the Hobby Lobby case a lot of folks are talking about personhood. Can a corporation be a person? I wrote today at Perspectives on History about my concern over how the Supreme Court in this case, and in a...
Thoughts on Hobby Lobby: Is a Corporation a Person?
The American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History asked me to write a short piece on the Hobby Lobby decision as part of a historians forum on the landmark Supreme Court case. The forum also includes short essays by Ruth Bloch, Naomi...
Hobby Lobby Wrap-Up
I am currently at work on a few hundred words on the Hobby Lobby case for the American Historical Associations Perspectives blog. It will probably appear in a day or two. In the meantime, here are some of interesting takes...