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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

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…
Thomas Lecaque
Annika Brockschmidt
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Religion Dispatches

Why Would Pentagon Allegedly Threaten Pope's Ambassador With 'Avignon Papacy'?

After official's alleged warning about U.S. military power, the Pope canceled plans to attend America's 250th.
During a January closed-door meeting at the Pentagon, a Trump administration official reportedly warned a Vatican ambassador that America had the military power to do whatever it wants in the world…
Thomas Lecaque
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Trump and Pope Leo superimposed over Vatican City
Religion Dispatches

The US Military's Jerusalem Cross Fetish

This is about so much more than “disrupting drug trafficking"
It’s never a good sign when the Jerusalem Cross hits the news in the United States. Which is unfortunate, since the symbol, which features prominently on the flag of Georgia (the country, not the…
Annika Brockschmidt
Thomas Lecaque
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yellow highlight of jerusalem cross on US soldier’s helmet