A boy died and God Almighty — God who laid the foundation of the earth, who determined its measurements when the morning stars sang together, God who commands the morning and causes the dawn to know its place, God who bound the chains of the Pleiades and loosed the cords of Orion — wept. Read more
Charles Lindbergh was really racist in 1940, calling for the same kind of white-supremacist, whites-only laws that Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are calling for now. Read more
Today is the 41st anniversary of the publication of Hal Lindsey’s The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon. It was Lindsey’s fifth book and, like the first four, it was hugely popular, spending nearly half the year on The New York Times best-seller list. Millions of white Rapture Christians read this book and trusted the “biblical prophecy” of its author, who warned that “the decade of the 1980s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it.” The... Read more
"He has subscriptions to those magazines He never waves when he goes by He's hiding something from the rest of us ..." Read more
Be smart and give a listen to David Dark, Charlie Dates, Elizabeth Jemison, Rebecca Solnit, Fintan O'Toole, and Melissa Gira Grant. Read more
"Vote Christian" is how very nice White Baptists in Georgia say "Vote Against the Jew." Plus: "conservative" as a one-way ratchet, and a song for January. Read more
"Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow." Read more
White evangelicals used to believe that revival would bring us closer to justice. They don't even pretend to believe that anymore. Plus: Six Degrees of Mark Meadows. Read more
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick owes my lieutenant governor $3 million in Sheetz and Wawa gift cards. Read more
I'm still not convinced the idea of a "Cosmopolitan vs. Populist" framework clarifies more than it confuses. Read more
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