The tension between religiosity and secular government goes back to the nation’s founding.
Susan Jacoby
Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism.
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The God Squad
Leaders of the religious right are demanding a hard-line conservative Supreme Court as payback for their contribution to the re-election of President George W. Bush. Liberals, meanwhile, are seeking consolation in a roll call of justices, past and present, who have demonstrated the annoying independence fostered by elevation to a job with lifetime tenure. The […]