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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 3d

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What MacIntyre Meant | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

Many competing movements claimed the late, eminent moral philosopher, whose encompassing critique of modernity made him an outsider despite his outsized influence.

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 4d

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Public Lecture by Steve Macedo | In Covid’s Wake: Science, Liberal Democracy, and Elite Failure - ThinkND

Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious journalism. Each was politicized and degraded u...

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 6d

In 2025, law school admissions practices continue to look at the LSAT like it's 2005
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In 2025, law school admissions practices continue to look at the LSAT like it's 2005

A look at what law schools are, and aren't, doing in light of changes to the LSAT and to the USNWR rankings

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 19d

My latest @scotusblog.com :

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The problem of “religion”

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression. [...

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 22d

Here is my final post, after 20 years, at Prawfsblawg:

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May Dan Markel’s memory continue to be a blessing! @prawfsblawg

PrawfsBlawg: Farewell and Thank You to Prawfsblawg

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 22d

Gerard V. Bradley and the American Law of Church and State url: academic.oup.com/ajj/article-...

Gerard V. Bradley and the American Law of Church and State

Abstract. This paper provides an overview and appreciation of Prof. Gerard V. Bradley’s scholarly contributions to the American constitutional law of churc

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 25d

A nice re-cap from @williambaude Will Baude and the last sentence is spot on. I’m looking forward to the justice’s presentation at Notre Dame today.

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Listening to Justice Amy Coney Barrett

A few reflections on her book

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 25d

A fascinating new law-and-history paper by my student, Mintae Cha - Presbyterians and Jacobins!

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · 28d

Congrats to (my student) on the coveted Solum Shout-Out!

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 28d

Wieboldt on American Providentialism, buff.ly/L3eoRzM - Dennis J. Wieboldt III (University of Notre Dame) has posted American Providentialism: A Reappraisal (40 Notre Dame J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y __ (2025)) on SSRN.

Wieboldt on American Providentialism

Dennis J. Wieboldt III (University of Notre Dame) has posted American Providentialism: A Reappraisal (40 Notre Dame J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y __ (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Section I,…

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Sep 3

Recommended. This, and Dostoyevsky’s “The Devils”, which seems more and more timely.

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An Ex-FBI Agent’s Warning to Parents About Nihilists Like Robin Westman

As an FBI agent for nearly 20 years, Pat McMonigle expected to fight terrorists whose ideologies were known. He couldn’t have imagined the faceless, evil, violent nihilists he found online.

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Sep 2

I think there should be. Do you? =-)

Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 29

RFKJr is a supporter of expansive abortion rights.

Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 29

No doubt, the steely-eyed focus of the campaign to replace the retiring judge will be to elect a judge with non-partisan dedication to the rule of law.

Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 28

Not quite sci-fi / fantasy, but the city is definitely a character in Helprin’s (magical realist?) Winter’s Tale …

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great work, Micah - an appropriate tribute to a legend.

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 25

A new paper from Marc Degirolami - a must read, as usual!

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PERSON, RELIGION, AND THE PROBLEM OF LEGAL ESSENCES

While American law continues to use the terms "person" and "religion," their meanings in different legal contexts suffer from a growing inco

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 22

Narrator: Overlong and self-indulgent solo KBJ dissents in non-merits matters did not prove to be the last word on Chief Justice Roberts’s tenure.

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 22

The old well-meaning liberal WASP establishment had its merits I guess.

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have (and have long had) different reasons for wanting to move on from Rawls but . . . whatever it takes, I guess. =-)

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have a short piece up at SCOTUSblog on the status of the "Lemon Test" and the recent enactments and decisions about laws requiring Ten Commandments displays:

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The Ten Commandments and a "secular purpose"

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression. [...

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 20

The trial court’s opinion in the Texas Ten Commandments case (which, given the precedents, probably reaches the result a trial judge should reach) is the most bizarre, rhetorically irresponsible, and injudicious opinion I can recall:

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congrats!!

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 19

Re-upping this. Good luck, first years!

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Some Thoughts for New Law Students

Law students shouldn’t be content with shallow conceptions of law. Instead, they should look deeper, asking questions about the nature and destiny of the human person, and the connection between our h...

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 15

Oh, I get those (or things like them) too. But this place is no better.

Also (and maybe we just disagree), I don’t think there’s any problem with a political community saying “you can’t throw things at cops”, and punishing people who do. (If the throwing is morally warranted, so it goes.)

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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Aug 15

The discourse on this site is so much better! =-)

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