No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity
We’ve all heard the stories, and some of us have seen it with our own…
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Trump’s CPAC Meltdown Wasn’t Just Comedy Gold, It Was Groundbreaking Extremism
Prior to Trump, no president has actually spoken at public right-wing events like CPAC and the Values Voter Summit, and he’s the first president to actively embrace the prosperity gospel.
Read MoreTrump Floated Dastardly Deal With Erdogan
To entice the Turkish president to go easy on Saudi Arabia, the Trump administration floated the idea of extraditing a permanent U.S. resident who would likely face serious punishment.
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The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation
Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color.
Read MoreTrump Pardons the Hammonds, Arsonists Who Inspired Bundy Standoff
Both this administration and this Supreme Court have proved all too willing, in recent months, to prioritize the individual entitlements and business interests of white Christian men.
Read MoreThe Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children
Surely most of us, no matter our political bent, feel sad for the entrapped children in both circumstances. But our collective conscience leads us to two different interventions on their behalf.
Read MoreDehumanizing Huckabee Tweet Another Echo of Dangerous Tribalism
There is a direct line from tribal epistemology to dehumanization that can blind even those religious people who claim that “God is love.”
Read MoreWithout Judgement Day or Karma How Does a Humanist Confront ‘Trump Funk’?
For those confident in the coming of Judgment Day or in the frictionless workings out of karma, there is naught to be done but wait for history to unfold its glorious purposes.
Read MoreBusting a Myth of Evangelical Glory Days … and More, in White Supremacy Quiz
If American evangelicals can no longer point to the “glory days” when they were on the right side of history with regard to race, then it becomes much more difficult to avoid a reckoning.
Read MoreWhy Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?
It’s not that Republican politicians and strategists had become convinced of critical theory’s questioning of how scientific knowledge is produced. It’s that their desire to undercut the “realist attitude” and their love of uncertainty about the true had appeared to strangely dovetail with some postmodern theorists.
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