You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale triumphed at the Emmys last night, capping a culture-grabbing comeback for…
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How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics
“Conservative Christians had long rejected aspects of expert knowledge, official science, reason, and their organs of circulation. They had been trained in a fundamentalist hermeneutics of suspicion.”
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The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’
What looks at first like Republican gullibility is really Fundamentalism’s century-long battle with expert knowledge.
Read MoreThe Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’
It wasn’t Christianity that helped make Republican voters more likely to be duped, but susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism.
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An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right
What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise…
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