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Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Law, Religion, and Liberty: A Conversation with John Witte, Jr.

Posted by: Dan Turello

Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes distinguished scholars, writers, researchers, and scientists. “Insights” is featuring some of the work of this highly-accomplished group of thinkers. …

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Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Michael Sandel at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Dan Turello

You’re sitting on a trolley car, careening down a train track. There are five men ahead working on the track and you will kill them all if you proceed. You can’t stop, but what you can do is veer off onto a separate track and kill only one man instead of five. Do you do …

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