I’m honored to be on Thom Hartmann’s program to talk about white evangelicals, right-wing populism, and impacts on American society and democracy.
Author: Marcia Pally
The Jan. 6 riot shocked Americans. Maybe it shouldn’t have
AMERICA MAGAZINE POLITICS & SOCIETYNEWS ANALYSIS The Jan. 6 riot shocked Americans. Maybe it shouldn’t have. https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2022/07/22/jan-6-hearing-trumpism-243402 Marcia Pally July 22, 2022 A video of President Donald Trump recording a statement on Jan. 7, 2021, is played, as the House […]
Robert Jones, of the “Gold Standard” in Religion Research, Interviews Marcia Pally on Evangelical Populism
Pally on White Evangelical Populism–Dangerous Dogma/Word&Way Podcast
Click here for a wonderful conversation with stellar thinkers and journalists, the Rev. Beau Underwood and Brian Kaylor, at Word & Way. It’s a boon and inspiration to meet such informed, thoughtful people.
Trump and Jan. 6 Epitomize America’s History of Us vs Then
BY MARCIA PALLY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR 06/29/22 2:15 PM ET Trump and Jan.6 epitomize America’s history of us vs them In yesterday’s surprise hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Donald Trump’s then Chief of Staff Mark […]
The Jan. 6th Riot: An American Success Story–my piece in “The Hill”
I’m delighted and honored by the publication of my piece on the Jan. 6th riot in The Hill. It looks at the anger and violence as an ironic and tragic outcome of US culture and history–the other side of America’s bright political coin.
Leonard Cohen! Talk with Marcia Pally & Moshe Halbertal & live music–YouTube
Honored to talk about Leonard Cohen’s work with philosopher Moshe Halbertal and host Stephan Steiner at the Catholic Academy in Berlin–and with four sensational musicians! Click here
Marcia Pally on White Evangelical Populism–Veterans of the Culture Wars podcast
Honored to talk about my book on the Veterans of the Culture Wars podcast with top-notch reporters Zach Malm and David Lester. Click here or here
The White Evangelical Vote: An Irony of American Religio-Political Culture
The White Evangelical Vote: An Irony of American Religio-Political Culture Political Theology Network May 22, 2022 By Marcia Pally Why is populism persuasive and specifically persuasive to these religious Christians? Said another way, what makes right-wing populism seem, to deeply […]
The Tragic Irony of Populism
The tragic irony of populism is that once-productive, government wary anti-authoritarianism and community localism can distort into exclusionary, us-them suspicion of the “deep state” and “outsiders,” ending us at racist violence and the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol Building. Read more here