The Supreme Court’s blessedly narrow decision about religion in the workplace, explained

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s decision in Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin largely avoids difficult questions about religion and the workplace. | Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images

In 2018, shortly before Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation shifted the Supreme Court drastically to the right, Democratic Justice Elena Kagan laid out her strategy to keep her Court from becoming too ideological or too partisan. The secret, she said, is to take “big questions and make them small.”

Since then...