Coincidentally, much of my summer reading happened to revolve around religion, its history and development in the West and America, and its centuries-old war with science, as follows: The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, by Frank Lambert, surveys the development of religion in America by attempting to answer the question, “How […]
Archives for October 2004
Big Media Comeuppance
David Broder said it well: “Once upon a time, the media knew better. The first sign of wavering confidence came when news organizations began offering their most prestigious and visible jobs not to people deeply imbued with the culture and values of newsrooms, but to stars imported from the political world.” In the wake of […]
Revival Of The “Takings Clause”
In August, an event of true significance passed without the notice it deserved: Michigan’s Supreme Court unanimously reversed the infamous Poletown decision, invalidating as erroneous the reasoning in that case that “a private entity’s pursuit of profit was a ‘public use’ for constitutional takings purposes simply because one entity’s profit maximization contributed to the health […]