Maybe it’s much too early in the game

December 29, 2020 By Fred Clark

“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

Postcards from the class & culture wars (12.29.20)

December 29, 2020 By Fred Clark

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“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

But if any one of us should interfere

December 28, 2020 By Fred Clark

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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

Vote fraud in swing-state Pennsylvania

December 24, 2020 By Fred Clark

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick owes my lieutenant governor $3 million in Sheetz and Wawa gift cards. Read more

It’s not about aptitude, it’s the way you’re viewed

December 23, 2020 By Fred Clark

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I’m still not convinced the idea of a “Cosmopolitan vs. Populist” framework clarifies more than it confuses. Read more

Iustitia

December 23, 2020 By Fred Clark

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Our English versions of the Bible have literally translated justice out of the text. But, oddly, Latin-obsessed traditionalists seem even LESS amenable to iustitia. Read more

Not many powerful, not many of noble birth

December 21, 2020 By Fred Clark

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2020 exit polls confirm what Frederick Douglass said. Plus: The Guardians of Photoshop, an appalling small sample, and Q-Anon romance. Read more

Culture warriors don’t know how to respond to a pandemic

December 20, 2020 By Fred Clark

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The virus isn’t culture. It’s nature. And when all you’ve got is an “Us vs. Them” framework, you’re unprepared to deal with Us vs. It. Read more

Five years ago

December 17, 2020 By Fred Clark

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Five years ago, Wheaton College — a pillar of cautious, institutional white evangelicalism — went full Trump. I didn’t see that coming. Dr. Hawkins did. Read more