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A deeply intelligent view of California’s gay marriage ruling

A couple of Thanksgivings ago, I met Jonathan Rauch at my cousin Ben Wittes‘s big family table. Aside from hanging around with that branch of my family, meeting Jon was the second best thing about that particular Thanksgiving. (The first … Continue reading

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Other legal news: Law, religion and conservatism

An obituary in the October 23, 2011 New York Times stirred me. It begins: Anita Caspary, the onetime mother superior who led the largest exodus of nuns from the Roman Catholic Church in American history, died on Oct.5 in Los … Continue reading

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