A programming note: later this month, I’ll present my paper, “The New Thoreaus,” at the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center at the University of Texas School of Law. The paper discusses the increase in the number of unaffiliated believers–people who reject organized religion and follow their own spiritual paths–and whether the Free Exercise Clause should apply to them. Details are here. Very much looking forward to this. Center friends in Austin, please stop by and say hello!