Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Thomas Lecaque

Thomas Lecaque is Associate Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, located on Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk lands. He has written for The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and The Bulwark. Follow him @tlecaque on Twitter.

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Religion Dispatches

To MAGA Evangelicals Mormons Will Always Be Heretics

The Pentagon may have reclassified the LDS Church as not-not-Christian but the whole episode highlights the issue of Mormons in the MAGA fold.
It’s really hard to sympathize with Senator Mike Lee, whose entire persona seems to have gravitated to online trolling of others from a most aggressively MAGA perspective. His X handle is…
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Religion Dispatches

The Fake Faiths of Our Founders?

DOD celebrates America's 250th by kicking Congregationalists, Deists, and Unitarians off recognized religions list
Every Pete Hegseth story somehow becomes a story about Christian nationalism, but few are as on the nose as last week’s. The Pentagon announced the culling of the US military’s list of recognized…
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Franklin Washington and Jefferson with clown noses in front of a background of red crosses
Religion Dispatches

Palantir's Technofascist Thread — Annotated

These mini-excerpts from Alex Karp's book aren't the insight of a tech titan so much as a recipe for 80s Hollywood dystopia.
Because they supposedly “get asked a lot,” Palantir recently tweeted excerpts from The Technological Republic , co-written by CEO Alex Karp, outlining the concept. We appreciate them boiling his book…
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