What Salman Rushdie’s Attacker Shares with Insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt
Several years ago I happened to sit next to Salman Rushdie at dinner when he…
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Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
We’re not used to thinking of Ron DeSantis, Florida’s rabidly culture-warring governor and a possible…
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The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?
When it was published in 1988, The Satanic Verses wasn’t immediately controversial. But the charged…
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Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
Regular readers of Religion Dispatches will likely be familiar with my fairly frequent forays into…
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Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
A Roman, a Confederate, and a Nazi walk into a political discourse… Sorry, there’s no…
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The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
On Monday, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Florida, during which, according to…
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Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
Last weekend, the Door Christian Fellowship Ministries in McAllen, Texas, mounted an unauthorized, unlicensed and…
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Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
Breaking up is hard to do, and I am not at all prepared to discard…
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What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
While his name may not be familiar to most Americans, for 40 years, between 1873…
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Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
As discussed earlier this week on RD, the Orthodox Church in America recently released an…
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