The resentful right predicted a civil war on Saturday. You may have noticed that did not happen. No violence, no riots, not a single public beheading. The resentful right noticed this too, and it ticked them off. Read more
The resentful right predicted a civil war on Saturday. You may have noticed that did not happen. No violence, no riots, not a single public beheading. The resentful right noticed this too, and it ticked them off. Read more
The crime is saturated with white evangelical piety. It seems to have been planned during prayer sessions, most of which was otherwise spent in actual prayer, with the conspirators just, Lord, just asking, Lord, to just give them the strength, to just, Lord, get away with murder. Read more
She said, "Yes, Lord, yet ..." Read more
By now readers have to be wondering if these are the only adjectives Jerry Jenkins knows. (Police Officer: "Did you get a good look at the suspect?" Jenkins: "He seemed sincere. And passionate.") Read more
"As long as it's not a Catholic hospital." The grown-ups all nodded in agreement at that. Everyone seemed to know that a Catholic hospital was no place for a woman with a difficult pregnancy. "In case anything happens," they said, ominously. Read more
The problem is not that we have abandoned the presumption of good faith, but that we have become reluctant to abandon it even in the face of clear evidence that it is untenable. Those who make a living by arguing in bad faith know this, and they've gotten very skilled at exploiting it. Read more
The doorbell keeps ringing. "Trick or treat!" This is America, kid. We say "Merry Christmas." Here are some spooky links for your Halloween evening, plus a little holiday music from Concrete Blonde. Read more
Rebecca Traister on how "Our National Narratives Are Still Being Shaped by Lecherous, Powerful Men." Sarah Gailey watches Blade Runner. Plus Abraham Lincoln, Carlos Maza, and Angel Underhill. Read more
While this white evangelical "mainstream" may have chosen to stand at a (slight) distance from the more aggressive religious right, they've never distanced themselves from its goals and aims. They have always been the nearest bystander -- the group whose inaction and silence is most responsible, as a sin of omission, for allowing the religious right to redefine religion. Read more
"When they were separated from each other, he summoned one of them and said to him ... 'Now then, if you really saw this woman, tell me this: Under what tree did you see them being intimate with each other?'" Read more
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