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‘Late Night With The Devil’ Reflects the Role of Talk Shows in Sensationalizing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s

By Joseph Laycock

…ults were much like the ones in the film. In 1987, the FCC eliminated the fairness doctrine, freeing the networks to flood the air with salacious “infotainment.” Satanic cults were covered on Sally Jesse Raphael, Oprah, and Geraldo Rivera’s 1988 special, “Exploring Satan’s Underground.” In 1990, John O’Connor, cardinal of New York, gave a sermon warning about the dangers of demons, Satanic crime, and rock music, even reading from The Exorcist in S…

To One Early 20th Century Rabbi Skeptical of Zionism, Passover Isn’t Simply A Celebration Of Freedom — It’s Also A Warning

By Shaul Magid

…, while people become homeless, while the stench of death fills the spring air. They will sit and tell this story still traumatized by the ruthless murder of 1,200 in Israel (including both Israelis and non-Israelis). But it isn’t the blood of the sacrificial goat that stains their homes, it’s the blood of their families and comrades, hostages whose fate is still unknown, and of the 33,000 killed in Gaza so far. And it is the story of experiencing…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…e word out about this? We’re doing our best. We want people to come to our website and take the information, then go and use it in a way that can speak to their communities from their own perspectives. That gets at my next question, which is in that same What You Can Do? document I mentioned earlier. It suggests giving a message of hope as part of the work. How can voters encourage one another in this sort of nerve-racking time? Fear is certainly…

Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…performed weddings on boats, on horseback, on roller coasters, and in hot air balloons. None of this seems specifically Christian or at all traditional, but there is a minister involved. The website notes that not all the ministers performing weddings are ordained by a church, but they do all have legal licenses in the state of Idaho. Donald and Evelyn Knapp are ordained. They take their ordinations very seriously and understand that it comes wit…

How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking

By Susannah Crockford

…t vaccines as toxic, or chemtrails, poisonous heavy metal sprayed into the air from airplanes for nefarious purposes. Now in 2020, the same people are posting and talking about QAnon, election rigging, and that Covid-19 is a hoax. Belying simplistic associations between new age hippies and left-wing politics, there’s a deep distrust for any government, scientific, medical, or technocratic authorities. Rather than an issue of political alignment or…

It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals

By Ryan Burge

…he runs toward the ball Lucy pulls it away sending Charlie flying into the air and landing flat on his back. It’s the perfect analogy for the Democratic Party’s attempts to try and win back the white evangelical vote over the last four presidential elections. Every election cycle, social media is filled with discussions about how this year will be the one when white evangelicals will shift back (at least in part) toward the Democratic party. And e…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t queer persons in India face while accessing justice, this report makes a number of arguments: First – laws which must guarantee and facilitate the full range of queer persons’ human rights, instead, operate to hinder or inhibit queer persons from accessing justice and seeking redress. Second – The attitude and behavior of police is one of the biggest barriers to queer persons’ access to the justice system in India. Not only do police officers co…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…ight collarless suits. But there really was a lot of talk back then about hair styles and comportment and what these meant for youngsters. I found this great interview from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation from the mid 1960s in which Betty Friedan identified the Beatles as raising a middle finger to the masculine mystique—they were declaring that they had had enough of the crew cut, Prussian-style militarism of hyper-masculinity. So even on the…

How a Mormon Spring Break Ritual Came to Include a Whole Lot of “Hare Krishna, Hare Rama”

By Spencer Dew

…d by Krishna’s divinity. And all those Mormon kids tossing colors into the air, practicing yoga postures, reciting mantras, getting their palms read, and perusing copies of the Bhagavad Gita for sale by robed mendicants? For them—based on written reflections of past participants and an anecdotal sampling of attendees via interviews conducted at the 2015 Festival—this is a celebration of a very different universal God, a Christian deity in whose cr…

Alex Jones, Performance Artist, and the Duelling Meanings of ‘Sincerity’ in Politics and Public Life

By Spencer Dew

…awyers have declared for him—that he’s a “performance artist,” that his on-air persona is an act, that “he’s playing a character.” Jones came to national fame via his charismatic—often near-apoplectic—hosting of the radio show Infowars, one of the media sources President Trump does not consider to be either “fake” or “the enemy of the American people.” Indeed, Trump has called Jones and his show “amazing.” What Infowars does best is conspiracy the…