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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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
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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 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
Abortion is not the only issue driving white evangelical politics. (RNS) — With proof leaking out that the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, many are saying white evangelicals have finally gotten what they want. It was the […]
