Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Book Club
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Wallace Reviews Taxation, Citizenship And Democracy In The 21st Century
Clint Wallace (South Carolina; Google Scholar), Book Review, 8 British Tax Rev. 296 (2025) (reviewing Taxation, Citizenship and Democracy in the 21st Century (Yvette Lind (BI Norwegian Business School; Google Scholar) & Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar) eds. 2024)): The editors of this volume diplomatically challenge the “conservative amount of communication” between scholars focusing on taxation,
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Wallace Reviews Taxation, Citizenship And Democracy In The 21st Century
Clint Wallace (South Carolina; Google Scholar), Book Review, 8 British Tax Rev. 296 (2025) (reviewing Taxation, Citizenship and Democracy in the 21st Century (Yvette Lind (BI Norwegian Business School; Google Scholar) & Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar) eds. 2024)): The editors of this volume diplomatically challenge the “conservative amount of communication” between scholars focusing on taxation,
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Ajay Mehrotra Receives Prestigious Research Honors To Support His Latest Tax Book Project
Northwestern Law News, Professor Ajay Mehrotra Receives Prestigious Research Honors to Advance New Book Project: Ajay K. Mehrotra, the Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Affiliated Professor of History also at Northwestern University, has been selected as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell
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Ajay Mehrotra Receives Prestigious Research Honors To Support His Latest Tax Book Project
Northwestern Law News, Professor Ajay Mehrotra Receives Prestigious Research Honors to Advance New Book Project: Ajay K. Mehrotra, the Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Affiliated Professor of History also at Northwestern University, has been selected as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell
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NY Times Op-Ed: Charisma, Christianity, And Trump
New York Times Op-Ed: Charisma Rules the World, by Molly Worthen (North Carolina; Author, Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump (2025)): The 2020s should have been the decade when American politics began to make sense. The multibillion-dollar industry of public opinion polling can turn vibe shifts into tweetable bar graphs and trend
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NY Times Op-Ed: Charisma, Christianity, And Trump
New York Times Op-Ed: Charisma Rules the World, by Molly Worthen (North Carolina; Author, Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump (2025)): The 2020s should have been the decade when American politics began to make sense. The multibillion-dollar industry of public opinion polling can turn vibe shifts into tweetable bar graphs and trend
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The Atlantic: What The Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America
The Atlantic: What the Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America, by Molly Worthen (North Carolina; Author, Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump (2025)): In Durham, North Carolina, just a few miles from major universities, teaching hospitals, and other temples of science, the Holy Spirit remains formidable. When I attended a gathering at
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The Atlantic: What The Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America
The Atlantic: What the Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America, by Molly Worthen (North Carolina; Author, Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump (2025)): In Durham, North Carolina, just a few miles from major universities, teaching hospitals, and other temples of science, the Holy Spirit remains formidable. When I attended a gathering at
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The Secret To Workplace Happiness: ‘High-Quality Connections’
The Athletic, Joey Votto and Steph Curry Found a Secret to Workplace Happiness. You Can, Too: As a young first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, Votto showed up to work, kept his head down and locked into his routine, the same drills, the same swings, the same results. … The routine turned Votto into one
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The Secret To Workplace Happiness: ‘High-Quality Connections’
The Athletic, Joey Votto and Steph Curry Found a Secret to Workplace Happiness. You Can, Too: As a young first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, Votto showed up to work, kept his head down and locked into his routine, the same drills, the same swings, the same results. … The routine turned Votto into one
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Shaviro: Now Is Now, And Then Is Then—A Memoir
Daniel Shaviro (NYU; Google Scholar), Now Is Now, and Then Is Then: A Memoir: “Who am I really? And what should I name my pet iguana?” Few people – and certainly not Daniel Shaviro when he was young – can answer such questions very well. But, as Shaviro shows in this lively, witty, and candid
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Shaviro: Now Is Now, And Then Is Then—A Memoir
Daniel Shaviro (NYU; Google Scholar), Now Is Now, and Then Is Then: A Memoir: “Who am I really? And what should I name my pet iguana?” Few people – and certainly not Daniel Shaviro when he was young – can answer such questions very well. But, as Shaviro shows in this lively, witty, and candid
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Reviews Of Ross Douthat’s Believe: ‘A Mere Christianity For The 21st Century’
The Dispatch: Something Spiritual This Way Comes, by Patrick T. Brown (Ethics and Public Policy Center): Believe engages with materialism on its own terms. Roughly the first half of the book deals with consciousness and the cosmos, from the start of the universe to the end of life. Science, far from disproving religion, has deepened
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Reviews Of Ross Douthat’s Believe: ‘A Mere Christianity For The 21st Century’
The Dispatch: Something Spiritual This Way Comes, by Patrick T. Brown (Ethics and Public Policy Center): Believe engages with materialism on its own terms. Roughly the first half of the book deals with consciousness and the cosmos, from the start of the universe to the end of life. Science, far from disproving religion, has deepened
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The Empty Ecstasy Of Digital Crowds
Dispatch Faith: The Empty Ecstasy of Digital Crowds, by Brad Edwards (Pastor, The Table Church (Lafayette, CO); Author, The Reason for Church: Why the Body of Christ Still Matters in an Age of Anxiety, Division, and Radical Individualism (2025)): Should Christians support Black Lives Matter? Fifteen years ago that question would likely have been asked in
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The Empty Ecstasy Of Digital Crowds
Dispatch Faith: The Empty Ecstasy of Digital Crowds, by Brad Edwards (Pastor, The Table Church (Lafayette, CO); Author, The Reason for Church: Why the Body of Christ Still Matters in an Age of Anxiety, Division, and Radical Individualism (2025)): Should Christians support Black Lives Matter? Fifteen years ago that question would likely have been asked in
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The Spiritual Journey Of Albert Einstein
Wall Street Journal Book Review: Einstein’s Sense of Awe, by Andrew Crumey (Author, Beethoven's Assassins (2024)) (Reviewing Kieran Fox (UC-San Francisco), I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein (2025); and Diana Kormos Buchwald (Einstein Papers Project) & Michael D. Gordin (Princeton), Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of
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The Spiritual Journey Of Albert Einstein
Wall Street Journal Book Review: Einstein’s Sense of Awe, by Andrew Crumey (Author, Beethoven's Assassins (2024)) (Reviewing Kieran Fox (UC-San Francisco), I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein (2025); and Diana Kormos Buchwald (Einstein Papers Project) & Michael D. Gordin (Princeton), Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of
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Work And The Meaning Of Life
Christianity Today: Work Matters to God Because We Matter, by David L. Bahnsen (Author, Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life (2024)): If one were to summarize the underlying thesis of the contemporary faith and work movement in a single sentence, it would likely be “Your work matters to God.” Dozens of books have been
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Work And The Meaning Of Life
Christianity Today: Work Matters to God Because We Matter, by David L. Bahnsen (Author, Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life (2024)): If one were to summarize the underlying thesis of the contemporary faith and work movement in a single sentence, it would likely be “Your work matters to God.” Dozens of books have been
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Mehrotra: The Rise And Entrenchment Of The Antitax Movement
Ajay K. Mehrotra (Northwestern; Google Scholar), The Rise and Entrenchment of the Antitax Movement: A Review Article, 141 Pol. Sci. Q. ___ (2025) (reviewing Michael J. Graetz (Columbia), The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America (Princeton University Press 2024)): Despite the vast and growing literature on U.S. conservatism, one aspect of the
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Mehrotra: The Rise And Entrenchment Of The Antitax Movement
Ajay K. Mehrotra (Northwestern; Google Scholar), The Rise and Entrenchment of the Antitax Movement: A Review Article, 141 Pol. Sci. Q. ___ (2025) (reviewing Michael J. Graetz (Columbia), The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America (Princeton University Press 2024)): Despite the vast and growing literature on U.S. conservatism, one aspect of the
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Bill Belichick: The Four Words Every Coach (And Dean) Needs To Say More Than Anyone Else On Their Team
Wall Street Journal Essay, How to Win Six Super Bowls? Don’t Relax After the First One. (Adapted From Bill Belichick, The Art of Winning: Lessons From My Life in Football (2015)): Sustained success, writes former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, requires sticking with what you’ve practiced and being ready to admit your own
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Bill Belichick: The Four Words Every Coach (And Dean) Needs To Say More Than Anyone Else On Their Team
Wall Street Journal Essay, How to Win Six Super Bowls? Don’t Relax After the First One. (Adapted From Bill Belichick, The Art of Winning: Lessons From My Life in Football (2015)): Sustained success, writes former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, requires sticking with what you’ve practiced and being ready to admit your own
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Blank & Osofsky: Introduction To Automated Agencies — The Transformation Of Government Guidance
Joshua D. Blank (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) & Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina; Google Scholar), Introduction to Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance (Cambridge University Press, 2025): Administrative agencies that are responsible for running federal government operations have increasingly turned to chatbots, virtual assistants, and other automated tools to offer guidance to the public about the law. Together,