Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Tristan Grunow of UBC to talk with him about religious responses to the Meiji political transition. In a conversation that hinges on the keyword anxiety, we talked about…
Read MoreMy latest teaser for Faking Liberties is now up over at Killing the Buddha. Timed to drop on the anniversary of the 21 February 1927 Farrington v. Tokushige Supreme Court decision, the essay ties religious discrimination against Japanese American Buddhists to the recent Supreme Court decision to deny a brief stay of execution to a Muslim prisoner in Dunn v. Ray.
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