Those who are in the Boston/Chestnut Hill area on September 15 may want to check out this lecture (open to the public) by world famous constitutional historian Jack Rakove, “Beyond Belief: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion,” at Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy (headed up by Ken Kersch, whose own writing on the history of 20th century legal conservatism is superb).  — MOD