Aquinas & Politics: Getting Out of and Into the Common Good By Marcia Pally published by Counterpoint Navigating Knowledge, March 13, 2019 I’m writing this blog just on returning from a conference hosted by the Thomist Center in New […]
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How some abortion opponents get ‘pro-life’ radically right
How some abortion opponents get ‘pro-life’ radically right By Marcia Pally Religion News Service, June 28, 2016 In this time of social and political polarization, we should remind ourselves of something that unites us: abortion. Abortion is divisive when the […]
The U.S. is a representative democracy? Thoughts—and humor–on politics in the Trump era
The U.S. is a representative democracy? Thoughts—and humor–on politics in the Trump era By Marcia Pally Die Tageszeitung January 20, 2017 as: “Das ‘We the people’ Gefuhl”` Visiting Europe since the Trump election, I’m not infrequently asked if, by being bad for […]
Marcia Pally at Davos: Does Religion’s Claim to Truth Lead to Violence?
Marcia Pally at Davos: Does Religion’s Claim to Truth Lead to Violence? 2010
Redeeming Populism: The Promise of a Liberal Covenanted Republic
Redeeming Populism: The Promise of a Liberal Covenanted Republic By Marcia Pally ABC Religion and Ethics 3 May 2018 What makes populism work? Earlier this year, New York Times columnist David Brooks told NPR that, because “populism has deep roots in America,” he believed “Bannonism” would […]
Analyzing America’s vigilante love affair with guns
Analyzing America’s vigilante love affair with guns By Marcia Pally Religion News Service; December 16, 2015 (RNS) Although this week’s GOP debate focused on terrorism and national security, none of the candidates drew a connection to the availability of guns, as […]
Populist, Nativist, Isolationist: For Trump, It Was All of the Above
Populist, Nativist, Isolationist: For Trump, It Was All of the Above by Marcia Pally COMMONWEAL, November 22, 2016 They wanted “change,” he promised change, and change most of all from the lying, corrupt, incompetent government of the last eight years. […]
Populism, Politics, and the 2016 US Presidential Election
“American Populism, Present Politics, and the 2016 presidential election” by Marcia Pally VIDEO: Presented at The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 21, 2016
Trump: Why American Doesn’t Know What to Do With Government
“Trump, American Populism, and Why American doesn’t know what to do with its own government,” By Marcia Pally VIDEO: Presented at Humboldt University-Berlin. Jan. 9, 2017 Please note: After the brief introduction in German, the presentation is in English.
Reduce Abortions–Realign US politics: New Evangelical ideas
Reduce Abortions–Realign US politics: New Evangelical ideas By Marcia Pally It’s political gospel that evangelicals are a solid Republican bloc because they vote only for candidates who oppose abortion. And on the whole, this is true–as they’ll likely again show […]









