I. Introduction Last year, in the case of Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court extended Free Exercise jurisprudence in a manner that should be troubling to religious moderates and secularists alike. As has been covered extensively (here, here, and here, for example), the facts of the case…

I distinctly remember the moment it occurred to me that teaching undergraduates was taking a significant toll on my health. It was late-November. I had just finished a lecture on the 2016 presidential election and the role of racial animosity in voter behavior. It was 9:00 PM, the classroom was…

I. What every cosmic horror hero does is look too hard. The threat is always there. It was always going to be there. But the hero looks when others don’t. She could have gone along unaware. But she starts looking at the flaws, picking at the little tears at the…