Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
Forty years ago today, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself. The city…
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Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
Last week, just days after Pope Francis was laid to rest in Rome, Trump was…
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EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
While too many American leaders are content to quibble over definitional particularities, experts are (finally)…
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Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual
This week, the ADL released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents. Predictably, the organization repeated…
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We Called For Better Responses to Campus Antisemitism—and the ADL Threatened to Withdraw Sponsorship
On March 23, I delivered a talk at the 4th annual Law and Antisemitism conference…
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Amber Ruffin Wasn’t Cancelled by the WHCA Just Because She’s a Queer Black Woman Who Rejects ‘Both-Sidesing’
Comedian Amber Ruffin was literally cancelled from hosting the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner recently…
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My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
I was surprised on Friday when I started getting messages that my book, White Too…
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Defense Secretary Hegseth’s New ‘Kafir’ Tattoo is the Perfect Encapsulation of Trumpish Foreign Policy
Just when you thought you’d talked enough about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s tattoos for…
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What the Hell? Utah Passes Anti Ritual Abuse Bill Despite Ritual Abuse Not Actually Existing
So Utah passed a bill designed to “address” ritual abuse this week. That is a…
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Don’t Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism’s Sadistic Eroticization of Power
The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary…
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