Apocalypticism

Under Trump’s presidency there has been a rise in high profile anti-Jewish incidents. Perhaps because these incidents are often perpetrated by white supremacists who hold denigrating racialized views…

John F. Kennedy Jr. is dead and has been dead for some time. In July 1999, the small plane he was traveling in crashed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, killing him and two others. The bodies of…

The following is an excerpt from Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels (The University of California Press, 2020). Read Peter Laarman’s review of the book here. One of the key…

Among the troubling buzzwords forced into our pop culture vocabulary by the Covid-19 pandemic, one of most pertinent and perturbing is infodemic . As health experts struggled to assemble clear and…

Last week at White House Conference on American History, President Trump responded to what he called the “left-wing indoctrination” rampant within the public school curriculum. He took aim at the New…

If you’ve been online at any point in the past year—if not, welcome!—your aimless clicks and doomscrolling may have brought you glimpses of the “world” of QAnon : the conspiracy theory that argues…

At this point, it’s become conventional wisdom that the president is losing support among white evangelical Protestants (WEPs). The conventional wisdom is wrong, though. It’s based on polling by the…

Over the past week, two prominent African-American celebrities have been condemned for promoting anti-Semitism because of their belief that Black people are the “true” Hebrews, and that there exists a…

Last Tuesday, just days before Idaho became one of a handful states to see a record high in new COVID-19 cases, 15 Republican members of the Idaho House of Representatives went rogue, gathering in the…

In a March poll, respondents asked to choose whether the federal government’s priority should be “saving the economy” or “stopping the virus” overwhelmingly chose the latter, 71% to 21%. Though the…