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 […]
Category: Writings on Politics
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 […]
I’m radically Pro-Life and Not Only When It’s on the Cheap
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
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
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
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
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 […]