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In which the author describes how former Republican congressman Dick Armey went from decent guy to head of an angry mob.

What does it mean when a movie series infiltrates our daily lives, and infuses our summer nights with “magic”?

Deep, rich, wingnuttery abounds as everyone from Pat Buchanan to Fred Thompson falls over one another to try to terrify us about government-sponsored eugenics.

Don’t confuse AAA with AFA: one is a venerable roadside assistance company that gladly offers family discounts to gay and lesbian couples, the other is a right-wing group that would like to strand vulnerable people by the side of the road.

The logic of Evangelical theology tends to reduce systemic social problems to individual sin — not racism, for example, but racists. How did this play out among Republicans, and their constituencies, during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings?

Is American sexual culture schizophrenic? Yes, and this has everything to do with the sexual politics of the religious right. Sexual opportunity is everywhere, but sexual rights have, at the same time, been concretely eroded.

When a particularly vicious, fear-baiting, anti-Muslim video makes the rounds of the author’s friends and family, he realizes that the propaganda wasn’t meant for his generation, but for those who actually trusted what they heard on the news.

The brand-new Acropolis Museum, designed to showcase the repatriated plunder of another century, has instead a few other things to offer—among them, views of other museum-goers from beneath, as well as a newly censored video showing Greek Christians hard at work destroying Classical art.

As the Iranian president makes a public show of Islamic virtue, it is instructive to look through the eyes of Iran’s most prominent theologians and dissenters, and to recall what actual compassion looks like.

The Propaganda campaign against health care reform reaches a new low.