Trey Dimsdale serves as counsel for First Liberty Institute (FLI) and executive director of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, an FLI initiative focused on education and cultural advocacy for freedom.
Posts by Trey Dimsdale
July 10, 2024
Every year, millions of American families with college students complete a government form known as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The application is administered by the U.S.
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June 13, 2024
Liz Truss’ tenure as the United Kingdom’s prime minister will almost certainly be reduced to two footnotes. First, she was invited to form a government by Queen Elizabeth II during Her Late Majesty’s last public engagement.
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June 06, 2024
On April Fool’s Day, I saw headlines that Richard Dawkins, the famed British atheist and evolutionary biologist, had claimed to be a “cultural Christian.” I assumed the headlines were clickbait consistent with the day’s theme.
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May 21, 2024
My news feed early last month included updates on an ongoing drama involving two animals, both from endangered species. Zookeepers in Fort Worth and in Cleveland breathed a sigh of relief when Jameela, a western lowland gorilla born at the Fort Worth Zoo that had been abandoned by her mother, was accepted by Freddy, a Cleveland gorilla who has successfully fostered orphaned and abandoned gorillas before.
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May 07, 2024
Zack Fontenot was a menace. In fact, had we both been alive in 1904, he is the
last person I would have wanted anywhere near my merry-go-round because he had a history of setting them on fire.
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March 05, 2024
“Was the richest person in the world overpaid?” asked Delaware chancellor Kathaleen Saint Jude McCormick, the judge who decided he was, and then invalidated Elon Musk’s $56 billion performance-based compensation package from Tesla.
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February 15, 2024
Educators
love innovation. Education reform is a perennial theme in political campaigns, and almost every government has new rhetoric about how to reverse plummeting test scores, declining student achievement, and increased school violence and truancy.
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January 31, 2024
First Amendment scholar Michael McConnell may have understated the case when he wrote that “the free exercise clause may well be the most philosophically interesting and distinctive feature of the American Constitution.”
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October 25, 2023
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), in which the majority of the court ruled that the Constitution supports a right to marry for same-sex couples, many Americans in the “wedding business” faced a dilemma.
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October 04, 2023
Nearly 20 people were killed in Paris during and immediately following the Islamist attack on satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. Then, in November of that same year, terrorists killed 130 and injured hundreds more in a series of coordinated attacks across Paris that included suicide bombers detonating explosives outside the
Stade de France, indiscriminate shootings at crowded restaurants, and the storming of the Bataclan concert hall, where an American rock band played for a sold-out crowd of 1,500.
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