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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Symposium, Texas And The Future Of Legal Education Barry Currier, Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern) & Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute), The ABA And Law School Accreditation NPR, Law Clerks Describe Toxic Work Culture In Some Federal Judges’ Chambers Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Rejects 85% Of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Including Article By Asian-American…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts California Supreme Court Expands Remedies For Law Grads Victimized By Botched February Bar Exam 20th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop Concludes Today At Colorado NPR: Law Clerks Describe Toxic Work Culture In Some Federal Judges’ Chambers UCLA Hosts A Business And Tax Roundtable For Upcoming Professors…
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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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NY Times Op-Ed: Discovering Christianity: A Guide For The Curious
New York Times Op-Ed: The New Atheists ‘Attack a God I Don’t Believe in, Either’: A Q&A With Rowan Williams [Author, Discovering Christianity: A Guide for the Curious (2025)], by Peter Wehner (Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center): Rowan Williams is among the most important religious thinkers in the world. A theologian, poet, playwright…
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Journal Of Christian Legal Thought Symposium: Christ And The Common Life
Symposium, Christ and the Common Life, 15 J. Christian Legal Thought 1-60 (2025): Articles Seow Hon Tan (Singapore Management University; Google Scholar), Faith Misplaced, 15 J. Christian Legal Thought 1 (2025) Alvin Velazquez (Indiana-Maurer; Google Scholar), Advocating for Jubilee in the Midst of Colonization, 15 J. Christian Legal Thought 9 (2025) Emily A. Cole (Pepperdine), The…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Chronicle of Higher Education, UC-Berkeley Faculty Ask: Do Trump And His Allies Have A Point About Higher Education? Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Retaliates Against Former Editor Working In Trump Administration Who Alleged Pervasive Pattern Of Racial Discrimination Wall Street Journal, Jeopardy! Champion Skips LSAT For Dream Job For Young Men: Stay-At-Home-Son…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Call For Papers: 2026 Poverty Law Conference On Scholarship, Pedagogy, And Community In A Time Of Attacks On The Vulnerable More California Bar Exam Chaos Shaviro: Now Is Now, And Then Is Then—A Memoir Sunday: The Good Samaritan, God, And The Legal Profession Renn: The Problem…
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The Good Samaritan, God, And The Legal Profession
Allison McFadden (J.D. 2026, Cornell), Ignoring Drowning Babies (originally published in The Christian Lawyer (Spring 2025)): At some point in their first year torts class, law students read the “drowning baby” case: if a bystander walks by a baby drowning in a puddle, he can shield his eyes and walk on by. They learn that…
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Renn: The Problem Of Male Friendship
Aaron M. Renn (Author, Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture (2024)), The Problem of Male Friendship: The lack of male friendships was the subject of a great article in the NYT Magazine [Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?]. The piece, by Sam Graham-Felsen, doesn’t just have great content.…
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Pope Leo Drops Papal Supremacy, Urging ‘Full Communion’ With ‘All Christians’
Jules Gomes (PhD Biblical Studies, Cambridge), Pope Leo XIV Drops Papal Supremacy, Urging ‘Full Communion’ with ‘All Christians’: In his trailblazing inaugural sermon, Pope Leo XIV pointed to Christ, rather than Peter, as the foundational “rock” of Christianity, using the term “sister Christian churches” to mark his desire for ecumenical unity. “Love and unity: these…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Reuters, Trump’s International Student Ban Would Decimate Harvard Law School's 1-Year LL.M. Program ($81,760 Tuition Generates $11 Million/Year) Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), & Donald Gifford (Maryland) et al., AI Gets Its First Law School A+s (And An A In Tax) New York Times, Inside Trump’s Attack On The Harvard Law Review Wall Street Journal,…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts BigLaw First Year Associate Salaries Rise To $225,000 In Six Cities Giving Credit When You Are Due: Tax Credits For Birth Mothers Post-Dobbs Stephanie McMahon Receives 2025 Cincinnati Teaching Award Taxing Cultural Endowments Sunday: Panic, Pan, And Peter Anxiety, Panic, And Faith NY Times: JD Vance…
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Panic, Pan, And Peter
Christianity Today: The Problem of Panic, by Russell Moore (Editor in Chief, Christianity Today): Over 40 years ago, filmmaker Steven Spielberg terrified theatergoers with a movie that quickly embedded itself in the American cultural imagination. Like most scary stories, Poltergeist first lulled the audience with the familiar—a suburban home in a newly built housing development. It then…
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Anxiety, Panic, And Faith
Christianity Today: Panic is Profitable, by Timothy Dalrymple (President & CEO, Christianity Today): We live in an age of anxiety. Family pocketbooks and calendars are stretched to the breaking point. We worry for our children, then worry our children worry too much. We fear for the integrity of the church, for the political fabric of…
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NY Times: JD Vance On His Faith
Following up on last week's post: Washington Post: Pope Leo Teaches A Lesson From Jesus That JD Vance Should Listen To, by John Connelly (UC-Berkeley) New York Times, JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies: Ross Douthat: [W]e’re here in Rome, the day after the papal inauguration, and you just met with…
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Podcast: Religious Law Schools, Rankings, And Bias
Following up on my previous post, Are Faith-Based Law Schools Fairly Ranked By U.S. News?: Anton Sorkin (Director of Law Student Ministries, Christian Legal Society), Religious Law Schools, Rankings, & Bias: With the release of U.S. News Rankings last month, renewed interest has surfaced regarding the parameters and impact of placement. Where law schools fall speaks…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: New York Magazine, Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College. What Happens When They Get To Law School? Jeff Sovern (Maryland), What Could A Hostile Federal Government Do To Law Schools? Wall Street Journal, The Solution To Cheating On Exams With ChatGPT Is Painfully Old-School: Blue Books Samantha A. Moppett (Suffolk), Preparing Law…
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TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts ABA Plan To Double Experiential Learning Accreditation Requirement Spurs Criticism About Accreditor Overreach Holden & Kisska-Schulze: The Taxable Future Of College Sports Kuehn & Joy: Measuring The Impacts Of Experiential Legal Education Today's Law, Society, And Taxation Panel Sunday: Reviews Of Ross Douthat’s Believe ‘A Mere…
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Things Worth Remembering On Memorial Day: ‘Do Not Mourn Me Dead’
The Free Press: Things Worth Remembering: ‘Do Not Mourn Me Dead’, by Bill Ackerman: Of all American holidays, Memorial Day is beset by the most contradictions. Officially, it is a somber holiday, one where we honor our country’s war dead, but it is also the holiday that marks the unofficial beginning of summer. Over this…
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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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Pope Leo Teaches A Lesson From Jesus That JD Vance Should Listen To
Following up on my previous posts: Pope Francis vs. JD Vance On Immigration (Feb. 23, 2025) How JD Vance, A ‘Baby Catholic,’ Stumbled Into A Clash With Pope Francis (Apr. 27, 2025) Washington Post: Pope Leo Teaches a Lesson From Jesus That JD Vance Should Listen To, by John Connelly (UC-Berkeley): Soon after taking office,…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: New York Magazine, Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College. What Happens When They Get To Law School? Reuters, Northwestern Must Face Palestinian Law Grad's Discrimination Lawsuit Samantha Moppett (Suffolk), Preparing Law Students For The Artificial Intelligence Era Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), The 2024 Law School Transfer Market ABA Legal Ed Council, Report…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts SALT Workaround Used By Doctors, Lawyers Axed In GOP Tax Bill California Bar Cops To Multiple Scoring Errors On Disastrous February Bar Exam; Third Party Will Do A Comprehensive Review Survey: Political Climate And Trump’s Election Are Driving Law School Applicant Surge Repealing The Estate Tax…
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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…