{"id":17446,"date":"2022-10-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17446"},"modified":"2022-10-29T08:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T12:28:29","slug":"no-one-say-liberty-would-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17446","title":{"rendered":"No One Said Liberty Would Be Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Critic:<\/strong> \u201cMost of all Johnson wrote to drive away demons<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Religious Liberty<\/strong>: A new book by Norte Dame political scientist Vincent Phillip Mu\u00f1oz<\/a> “provides one of the best treatments we have on the meaning of the religion clauses” focusing on the debates held in each state “about establishments and religious freedom. . . . These debates, and the views of a spectrum of Founders, allow Mu\u00f1oz to craft a convincing argument. He contends that the founding generation\u2019s concept of religious liberty was rooted, first and foremost, in natural law and inalienable natural rights.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science Fiction: <\/strong>Disney now has creative input into the BBC’s Doctor Who<\/em><\/a> series, boasting it with financial support. I loved the classic series growing up. I watched every episode broadcast on PBS from Jon Pertwee’s run (#3), Tom Baker’s (#4 and still the best ever), Peter Davidson’s (#5), and Colin Baker’s (#6). I may have watched all the episodes with Sylvester McCoy, but the show lost its appeal for me during that time. Recently, I watched the new season 5 and part of 6 with Matt Smith, who is great as a title character, but over half of the stories were so much nonsense, I lost interest again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Banning: <\/strong>At least 520 Penguin Random House staff and connections are arguing that Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s book contract be cancelled<\/a>. They don’t oppose free speech, they write. They aren’t calling for censorship. “Rather, this is a case where a corporation has privately funded the destruction of human rights with obscene profits.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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