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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts The NextGen Bar Exam Meets The NextGen Law Student: A Revised Approach To Legal Analysis What Skills Do New Lawyers Need? Tom Brennan (Harvard) & Bridget Crawford (Pace) Elected Fellows Of American College of Tax Counsel Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: Is Christian Resistance To Trump Growing?…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Is Christian Resistance To Trump Growing?
New York Times Op-Ed: Is the Christian Resistance to Trump Growing?, by Esau McCaulley (Wheaton College; Author, The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary (2024)): Shortly after the passage of President Trump’s domestic policy bill, Speaker Mike Johnson posted a Bible verse on his social media from Paul’s second letter to the church in…
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WSJ Op-Ed: A Song For The Texas Rescuers (And America)
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: A Song for the Texas Rescuers, by Bob Greene: There are some 1,400 miles between the flooded Texas Hill Country and Washington’s National Mall. Over the holiday weekend the exhausted rescue crews in Texas, desperately searching for people they might save in the furious waters, couldn’t have known about the woman…
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Baylor Returns $643,000 LGBTQ+ Inclusion Research Grant
Chronicle of Higher Education, Baylor U. Returns Grant for LGBTQ+ Research: The Baptist university is returning a foundation grant intended to fund an examination of LGBTQIA+ inclusion in congregational settings. President Linda A. Livingstone wrote that the grant would have funded work that “extended into advocacy for perspectives on human sexuality that are inconsistent with Baylor’s…
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Notre Dame And Other Large Faith-Based Schools Lose Endowment Tax Shield; 3,000-Student Cap Spares Hillsdale
Bloomberg, University of Notre Dame Loses Endowment Tax Shield in GOP Bill: It looked like the University of Notre Dame would be safe from a Republican proposal to raise taxes on college endowments. But a loophole for religious schools was removed from the final tax bill, leaving the South Bend, Indiana-based school to pay a…
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NY Times: IRS Says Churches Can Endorse Political Candidates From The Pulpit
New York Times, I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit: The I.R.S. said on Monday that churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates to their congregations, carving out an exemption in a decades-old ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits. The agency made that statement in a court filing intended to settle…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), The Impact Of The One Big Beautiful Bill's Federal Student Loan Limits On Law Schools Business Insider, Law.com & Derek Muller (Notre Dame), More On The Impact Of The New Federal Student Loan Limits On Law School ABA Journal, Partner At 300+ Lawyer Firm Overcame Poor Fall…
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TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup
July 4th: Weekly Legal Education Roundup Tax Policy In The Trump Administration Florida Appeals Court Upholds Katherine Magbanua's Conviction In Dan Markel’s Murder; Donna Adelson's Trial Begins August 19 The Case For Fixing The Unprincipled Residence Tax Exemption Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts University Of Florida Law Student Who Wrote A…
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The Declaration Of Independence, Faith, And Idolatry
Dispatch Faith: A Declaration Against Idolatry, by Kevin D. Williamson: Abraham Lincoln … leaned into the Declaration when confronted with slave-holding Southerners who believed that the time had come when it was “necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.” What Lincoln derived from the Declaration was not…
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The Declaration Of Independence, Faith, And Antisemitism
Dispatch Faith: Is Antisemitism Un-American?, by Jack Miller (Founder, Jack Miller Center) & Wilfred M. McClay (Hillsdale; Author, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story): [Are] antisemitic attacks un-American? We should be very careful in using the word “un-American.” It has a history of being misused, and sometimes used in dishonest ways.…
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The Biblical Case Against The American Revolution
Christianity Today Book Review: These Pastors Loved America So Much, They Wanted It to Stay British, by John D. Wilsey (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Author, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea) (reviewing Gregg L. Frazer (The Master's University), God Against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy's Case against the American Revolution):…
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Texas Supreme Court Upholds United Methodist Church’s Right To Sue SMU For Severing Ties After Church Strengthened Ban On Gay Marriage And LGBTQ Clergy
Law360, Texas Justices OK Methodist Church’s Suit Against SMU: The Texas Supreme Court found the United Methodist Church has the right to sue Southern Methodist University over its attempted split, but in a Friday opinion drew short of saying the university filed false paperwork as part of the breakup. Justice Debra Lehrmann, who penned the…
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Notre Dame Honors Michael McConnell (Stanford) And Russell Hittinger (Catholic) For Their Religious Liberty Work
National Catholic Register, Notre Dame Law School Recognizes Scholars for Religious-Liberty Work: During its recently concluded fifth annual Religious Liberty Summit, Notre Dame Law School recognized two scholars for their contributions to the promotion and protection of religious liberty around the world. The Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty, which is awarded to one person each…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Joshua Kastenberg (New Mexico), Will Federal Judge Who Gave Award To Racist Paper As University Of Florida Adjunct Professor Need To Recuse Himself In Certain Future Cases? America First Legal, Terminated Tenured Law Prof Obtains ‘Full Reinstatement And Complete Vindication’ In Settlement With University NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High:…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Legislature Rejects Proposal To Allow Donor To Sue Over Alleged Misuse Of Ohio State Law School Naming Gift Gamage & Shanske: Winter Is Coming: What States Should Do Now, Part I Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: A Surprising Route To The Best Life Possible NY Times Op-Ed:…
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NY Times Op-Ed: A Surprising Route To The Best Life Possible
New York Times Op-Ed: A Surprising Route to the Best Life Possible, by David Brooks: We sometimes think humans operate by a hedonic or utilitarian logic. We seek out pleasure and avoid pain. We seek activities with low costs and high rewards. Effort is hard, so we try to reduce the amount of effort we…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Peter Thiel And The Antichrist
Following up on my previous posts: New York Times: Seeking God, Or Peter Thiel, In Silicon Valley (Feb. 16, 2025) Vanity Fair: Christianity Was ‘Borderline Illegal” In Silicon Valley. Now It’s The New Religion (Mar. 30, 2025 New York Times Op-Ed: Peter Thiel and the Antichrist, by Ross Douthat (Author, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious (2025): Ross Douthat: Is…
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William F. Buckley Jr.: Yale, God, Man, And Anthropology
Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale, God, Man, and Anthropology: In 1949, while an undergraduate at Yale, William F. Buckley Jr. took to the pages of the Yale Daily News to challenge a Sociology 101 professor’s demystifying approach to Christian ritual. As Sam Tanenhaus, whose biography of Buckley appeared earlier this month, explained to our Evan Goldstein…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: New York Times, Turmoil At University Of Florida Law School After Adjunct Professor Federal Judge Gives Book Award To White Nationalist Antisemitic Student For His Racist Paper Merritt McAlister (Interim Dean, Florida), Response To New York Times Article Reuters, ABA Files Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Its Race-Based Law School Scholarship Program Derek…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Colorado Professor: My University Values Football More Than Education ABA Files Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Its Race-Based Law School Scholarship Program Hospitals And Local Taxation: The Troubled Tale Of Property Tax Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: Charisma, Christianity, And Trump I Was A Bad Dad. Then…
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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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I Was A Bad Dad. Then My Son Gave Me A Second Chance.
The Free Press: I Was a Bad Dad. Then My Son Gave Me a Second Chance., by Joe Nocera: It’s Father’s Day, and at 10:00 a.m. this morning I’ll be getting on a plane and heading to South Florida, where I’ll join my 14-year-old son. As I’ve mentioned before, Macklin is a serious junior tennis player,…
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The MAGA We Desperately Need: Make America Grateful Again
New York Times Op-Ed: The MAGA We Desperately Need: Make America Grateful Again, by Russell C. Ball III: We live in the most materially prosperous era in human history. Over the past half-century, child mortality has fallen by two-thirds in the United States, medical advances have made lives longer and more comfortable, education rates have…
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Pepperdine Caruso Law School Hosts Inaugural State Of Religious Freedom Conference In Switzerland
Pepperdine Caruso School of Law welcomed legal scholars, jurists, and practitioners from around the world to the Fourth Annual Nootbaar Fellows Conference and the inaugural State of Religious Freedom Conference, held June 10–13 at the University’s Château d’Hauteville campus in Switzerland. The event was jointly organized by the Ken Starr Institute for Faith, Law, and Public…
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The Death And New Life Of Law And Religion
Marc O. DeGirolami (Catholic University; Google Scholar), The Death and New Life of Law and Religion, 13 Oxford J.L. & Relig. 16 (2024): The year 2023 was an end and a beginning. It saw the passing or retirement of many giants in the field of law and religion—scholars who brought their formidable erudition and insight to…