Volume 32 · Issue 1 · Winter 2026
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· Steven D. Smith
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Steven D. Smith

Steven D. Smith is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He writes on religious liberty, constitutional law, and the relationship between faith and political philosophy.

20151 essay
Is God Irrelevant?
Is God Irrelevant?

Ronald Dworkin's Religion Without God argues that morality doesn't need God, an argument as old as Plato's Euthyphro. Smith reads Dworkin against the way religious believers actually think God relates…

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