Frank Bruni(I)

Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 with a B.A. in English. He was a Morehead Scholar and on the staff of the student paper, The Daily Tar Heel. Graduated second in his class with a M.S. degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. At Columbia, he also won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.

'Religious liberty' sounds disturbingly like a dog whistle to the crowd that wants specified, codified exemption from anti-discrimination laws. It's one of the phrases they lean on. As these lamentations about religious liberty get tossed around, it's worth remembering that racists have used the same argument to perpetuate segregation.