Photo by Chris Hardy / Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. September 17 is designated as Constitution Day to commemorate the signing of the Constitution of the United States in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. This…
Photo by Fermin Rodriguez Penelas on Unsplash This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. As we continue the important conversation begun in early June with the publication of David Little’s The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights, Dr. Little…
Photo by Fermin Rodriguez Penelas on Unsplash This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. As we continue the important conversation begun in early June with the publication of David Little’s The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights, Dr. Little…
Photo by Fermin Rodriguez Penelas on Unsplash This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. To begin with, let me express my deepest appreciation to the six respondents who have taken the time and made the effort to provide such…
The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech:From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox’s Libel ActWendell Bird This article is adapted from the introduction of the author’s new book: The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech: From Blackstone to the First Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2020). The conventional view of the history of…
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay I live in Los Angeles, California, near what seems to me to be one of the most dangerous intersections in South LA, Vermont and Gage. On any given day, the intersection looks like any other intersection in the city. But to live in this area is to know, there are…
Photo by Nicole Baster on Unsplash In an interview with Krista Tippet’s theology podcast On Being, prominent civil rights activist and public theologian Ruby Sales considers the role of Black Christianity and Black folk religion in her community organizing. Despite being reared in the Black Baptist tradition, Sales explains that she “lost her religion” during…
Image by cocoColin from Pixabay This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This piece contributes to David Little’s claim that the right of self-defense is universally acknowledged by analyzing the subtle idea of self-defense in the book of Mencius,…
Photo by kareni on Pixabay This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. David Little has pioneered the study of religion, human rights, and religious freedom during 60 years of distinguished scholarly work at Yale, Harvard, Virginia, Georgetown, and the…
Photo Wendelin Jacober on Pexels This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. I am grateful to have the opportunity to respond to David Little’s important essay, The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights. David’s contribution…