After one publishes a book, there is always a weird moment of waiting to see what reviewers will have to say. Happily, all of the reviews of Faking Liberties that I’ve seen so far have been really positive and their critiques have been generally deserved and fair. Reviewers have also challenged some of my claims and taken issue with some of my rhetorical choices.
Read MoreI had the pleasure of talking with Nathan Hopson about Faking Liberties recently.
Read MoreI spoke with Gregory Soden at The Classical Ideas podcast about Faking Liberties, what brought me to write the book, and how religious freedom works as an abstract ideal versus how it works in lived experience.
Read MoreSecularity is anxious.
I wrote this short sentence during one of the many post-review revisions of my forthcoming book Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. I didn’t think much of it when I wrote these three words, but I soon recognized that the sentence neatly encapsulated the main points of the book. I’ll use this post to unpack what I meant.
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