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      The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
      Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
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    • The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication
      The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication
    • At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
      At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
  • Christian Nationalism
    • At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
      At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
    • Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
      Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
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      As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

Gordon Haber

Gordon Haber writes about religion and culture. He edited the anthology 2020: Good Writing from a Bad Year.

Archive, Politics/Law, Politics/LawJanuary 21, 2021

‘We’re Through the Looking Glass Now’: Talking Deradicalization with Dr. John Horgan

By Gordon Haber

How can American society recover from Trumpism? A new administration solves a lot of problems,…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, Culture, New Books, OMFGDecember 22, 2020

‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

New York City has the reputation of a place with absolutely zero patience for BS….

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, New Books, OMFGOctober 7, 2020

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

In 1820, at age 77, retired President Thomas Jefferson took a razor to four versions…

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Media Analysis, OMFGJanuary 24, 2020

Trump Gives Davos Press Credentials to Racist Conspiracy Outlet. Again.

By Gordon Haber

One of the many despicable attributes of the Trump administration is its habit of using…

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Culture, OMFGApril 17, 2019

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

Unless you actively follow the issues facing minority religions you probably heard little or nothing about the destruction and desecration of mosques that’s part of a larger Chinese governmental effort to expunge Islam from China.

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OMFGNovember 7, 2018

High Jewish Voter Turnout—and They Don’t Like Trump

By Gordon Haber

Eighty-five percent of American Jews vote. In this fraught moment of broad political tensions and razor-thin margins, those votes become even more important.

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Archive, Books, CultureJanuary 22, 2018

Idiot Wind: Stephen Strang’s “God and Donald Trump” Aims to Justify Christian Support

By Gordon Haber

There is no dispute that, by and large, the Christian right loves Donald Trump. The…

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Archive, Science & TechnologyOctober 2, 2017

Pathological Optimist Documentary Makes a Medical Martyr of Anti-Vax Crusader

By Gordon Haber

Every day brings a new tsunami of bullshit, a giant wave of lies flattening our…

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Archive, CultureMarch 22, 2017

“My Scientology Movie” Pokes the Hornet’s Nest

By Gordon Haber

I never thought I’d write something like this, but My Scientology Movie actually had me…

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(A)theologies, Archive, CultureOctober 27, 2016

A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

For many, Jerusalem has always been less a window on the past than a kind of magic mirror on the present.

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