The Political Convergence of Conservative Catholics and Protestants in the 1980s American Right
An excerpt from The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building that explores how The Family Policy Advisory Board moved forward Christian organizing for “traditional” families in the 80s.
During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues, discuss the establishment of the Catholic University of America, the…
Host Koki Mendis kicks off season 4 with a discussion with Steven Gardiner on the wide-ranging practices, policies, and ideologies underlying the antidemocratic goals of the Neoreactionary Right—and how to resist them.
Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” made headlines by officially classifying the far-right Alternative für…
Last week, just days after Pope Francis was laid to rest in Rome, Trump was asked by reporters if he had anyone in mind for the next pope. His answer : “I’d like to be pope. That would be my No. 1…
An expanded version of article was originally published in German at “ Volksverpetzer ”, an independent, crowd-funded online magazine covering the far-right in Germany and abroad. While too many…
The Rise of Paula White and the Independent Charismatics
In this excerpt from The Violent Take It by Force, Matthew D. Taylor examines the role of Paula White as a televangelist-turned-advisor for the Trump administration.
This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In June 2024, a…
I was surprised on Friday when I started getting messages that my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity , which won a 2021 American Book Award, appeared as #46…
This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. Two weeks before the…