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The February 2004 release of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is a major cultural event. Receiving a tremendous amount of advance publicity due to claims of its anti-Semitism and adulatory responses by conservative Christians who were the first to see it, the film achieved more buzz before its release than any recent film in…
Read Full Article... about Critical Reflections On Mel Gibson’s “the Passion Of The Christ”“Protect our democracy” has been the clarion call for those opposed to another Trump presidency and a warning for those who remain on the fence. Not without good reason. During his presidential term and in the four years that followed, Trump has shown a disregard or active hostility to the institutions and procedures meant to…
Read Full Article... about Is the United States an Illiberal Democracy?Federal law mandates that when a voter is turned away because her name cannot be found on the voter rolls, she must be offered the opportunity to cast a ‘provisional ballot.’[i] That ballot is set aside and later counted if election officials can verify the voter’s eligibility. The idea is that no eligible citizen should…
Read Full Article... about When Voting is a CrimeThe United States Constitution is and has been the cornerstone of American democracy. For more than a century, Americans have revered our governing document. But it was not always that way. In an 1854 speech at an Anti-Slavery Society rally in Boston, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison called the Constitution “a covenant with death and an…
Read Full Article... about Can the Constitution and Democracy Survive the Roberts Court?If democracy is government “of the people, by the people, for the people,” then there exists, to this day, a residuum of democracy in America. It is found mainly at the local level, in towns and smaller cities, and even up to the scale of some of the smaller states. Even at these levels it…
Read Full Article... about Democracy in America NowThe Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes hard-right policies aligned closely with former President Trump’s “America First” agenda and is designed to eliminate the guardrails that stemmed his authoritarian tendencies in his first term. Project 2025 advocates and plans an unparalleled concentration of presidential power in a Trump second term. It reflects major shifts at Heritage…
Read Full Article... about Project 2025: Trumpism and the New ConservatismNot often is an author forced to reevaluate the conclusions of his own book days after its final submission, yet that is exactly what happened to me in the winter of 2021. My book, Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism, came out in October of that year, but I had completed the writing…
Read Full Article... about Triumph of the VanguardI grew up in New Jersey and working in NYC, then I move to NY-Long Island with my wife to raise our kids. This was in the eighties and early nineties. Depending on whether I used a bus or the train, I had to go through terminals. I also walked through subway stations, in NYC,…
Read Full Article... about My TrumpIt might seem curious that Trump spent a valuable Sunday of campaign time before the election at a rally the middle of a city and a state that he has no chance of winning. MAGA Republicanism has never been about building out a broad coalition so much solidifying a hard kernel of passionate anger and…
Read Full Article... about The Apotheosis of Donald TrumpThis article is not the first that has used urgency as the basis of its importance. Like every time before, perhaps I hope that the outcome of the article will somehow add to a commitment of action for a different and better world. With war and political unrest ravaging so much of the world –…
Read Full Article... about The Urgency of Now: Was Democracy Really Useful in the Caribbean?
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2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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