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    The Prosecutor General of Finland has undertaken criminal prosecutions that will compel Finland’s clergy and lay religious believers to choose between prison and abandoning teachings of their various faiths.    First, Prosecutor General Raija Toiviainen has charged Dr. Päivi Räsänen, a Member of the Finland’s Parliament and former Finnish Minister of the Interior, with three counts of “ethnic agitation” for peacefully expressing her views on marriage and sexuality.  The char...

Ten academics and human rights advocates, including a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, called on the Biden administration Friday to sanction Finland's top prosecutor after she filed charges against Christians who declared what they believe the Bible says about homosexuality.

Charlotte Whelan joins the podcast to talk all things nuclear energy, the largest source of clean energy in the U.S.

Two Princetonians awarded Gaither Fellowship to work at Carnegie Endowment Jennifer Altmann, for the Office of Communications April 30, 2021 2:05 p.m. Princeton University senior Nikhita Salgame has been awarded a Gaither Junior Fellowship, which gives graduating seniors an opportunity to work as research assistants to scholars at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Benjamin Press, a 2020 graduate, received the award in 2020. They were among a select group of students from...

Biologist Bret Weinstein says COVID-19 likely came from a lab Julia Benbrook © Getty Images Biologist Bret Weinstein says COVID-19 likely came from a lab Biologist Bret Weinstein told Hill.TV that he believes COVID-19 was likely created in a lab and that fellow scientists are telling "fairy tales" about the virus originating in nature. Weinstein, a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, said the evidence "unfortunately points toward the possibil...

On the “postliberal” future of the federal courts Illustration by Michelle Rohn The New York Times published an opinion essay by Berkeley law professor (and law school dean) Erwin Chemerinsky originally titled “Amy Coney Barrett’s Originalism Threatens Our Freedoms.” Chemerinsky took aim at the fossilizing impact of “originalism,” the conservative theory of constitutional jurisprudence that declares that only the literal meaning of the Constitution’s text, along with what we kn...

Charlotte works at IWF as a policy analyst. Charlotte graduated from Princeton University with a degree in French and a certificate in Global Health. At Princeton, she was involved in a variety of activities including the James Madison Program and was the President of the Princeton Chapter of the Network of Enlightened Women. Charlotte is also a member of the Emerging Leaders Council at the Steamboat Institute. Charlotte married her college sweetheart and lives in Pensacola, Florida. In her spa...

AP Photo/Susan Walsh On Tuesday, Facebook suspended Robert A.J. Gagnon, a prominent Christian scholar on the topic of Bible sexuality, for 24 hours. His crime? Speaking out against transgender ideology and President Joe Biden’s new transgender military policy. Facebook claimed that Gagnon’s criticism of this government-imposed ideology violated the platform’s “Community Standards on violence and incitement.” Ironically, Gagnon’s post drew attention to Facebook’s suspension of his ...

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On the evening of January 12, 2021, more than 1,300 members of the Pepperdine University community gathered virtually to view the inaugural event of the President’s Speaker Series, “Honesty and Courage, Humility and Hope: Robert George and Cornel West in Dialogue.” George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and West, a professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard Unive...