I’m radically Pro-Life and Not Only When It’s on the Cheap By Marcia Pally Margaret Davis of Reston, Va., holds a sign during the March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 25, 2013. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks […]
CLINTON VS. SANDERS ISN’T ABOUT POLICY, IT’S ABOUT POWER BY MARCIA PALLY MARCH 1, 2016 On Super Tuesday, while commentators, coworkers, friends and family may debate the policies, pasts and perceptions of the Democratic hopefuls, the Clinton-Sanders contest remains essentially about one thing: […]
Does America Do It Better? Religion, Immigration, and Pluralism in the US and Europe— A special focus on Islam By Marcia Pally Internationale Politik, German Council on Foreign Relations, September, 2007 The May, 2007 Pew Report on Muslims in the US […]
Donald Trump: Apostle of America’s Civil Religion Religion and Ethics 16 Nov 2016 By Marcia Pally Trump gives voice, not only to American discontent, but to its political faith that it will be solved by ‘booting the bums out’. The […]
Evangelicals and the 2012 election: The kingdoms of faith and politics By Marcia Pally We are now past the half-mark in the Republican primaries, and it seems that evangelicals are following tradition—or stereotype–as the religious voting-bloc outlier. Yet a look […]
Machiavelli on the Potomac: What Will Donald Trump Do Now? Marcia Pally Religion & Ethics Friday 27 January 2017 Marcia Pally is a Professor at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and a permanent Fellow of the New York Institute […]
NOTE TO GOP VOTERS: “POLITICAL FREEDOM” COMES WITH SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY BY MARCIA PALLY ` Religion Dispatches, NOVEMBER 16, 2015 The Republican contest in this presidential election, as in many before, is between degrees of small-government-ism. To be sure, the party […]
The tragedy and futility of Trumped-up solutions By Marcia Pally Religion News Service, December 9, 2015 (RNS) Pigheadedness is on a roll. At the end of October, we were assured by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that harassing Muslims […]
‘Throw the bastards out’: an American tradition from settlers to Trump by Marcia Pally Thursday 8 September 2016 11.00 BST This past summer, I was guest-teaching in Europe. When the talk of the town wasn’t Brexit, it was the US […]
We have a right to pigheaded ideas. Now what should we do? By Marcia Pally Religion News Service November 4, 2015 (RNS) We are very fortunate to have free speech rights. It allows us to say things others find sinful or […]