Religious Freedom and the Christian Right’s Masterpiece of Manipulation

By Cole Parke, on December 5, 2017

Photo: United States Supreme Court. Joe Ravi/Wikimedia Commons. Throughout history, people have used religion to justify a myriad of injustices. In the United States, for example, some Christians used their faith to defend slavery and segregation, citing scriptural references as Read More

Three Pillars of the Alt Right: White Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

By Spencer Sunshine, on December 4, 2017

Photo credit: Karla Cote, August 11, 2017, Charlottesville, VA https://flic.kr/p/XuUyHe The new wave of avowed White nationalists who have been energized by Donald Trump—most prominently the Alt Right—have held demonstrations across the United States, most famously in Charlottesville, Virginia in Read More

In the Court of the Centrist King: Emmanuel Macron and Authoritarian Liberalism

By Ajay Singh Chaudhary, on November 28, 2017

President Donald J. Trump visits President Emmanuel Macron in France, July 13, 2017 (Photo: The White House / Shealah Craighead) “New Labour.” – Margaret Thatcher, when asked about her life’s greatest achievements. “America is the original version of modernity. We Read More

Right Positions D&E Bill as the Next Big Challenge to Roe

By Robin Marty, on November 6, 2017

Both anti-abortion and pro-choice advocates rally in front of the Supreme Court during the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case in June 2016. A lawsuit challenging Texas’s new ban on Dilation and Evacuation is likely to follow the same legal Read More

Rumors of Civil War: How Anti-Communist Conspiracies Imagine an Antifa Civil War on November 4

By Spencer Sunshine, on October 31, 2017

A conspiracy theory has spread like wildfire through the Far Right claiming that on November 4, “antifa” will start a civil war and attempt to overthrow Donald Trump. The date is supposed to precede the 100th anniversary of the Russian Read More

Hiding in Plain Sight: An American Renaissance of White Nationalism

By Donna Minkowitz, on October 26, 2017

Click for PDF. This article appears in the Fall 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. From July 28-30, nearly 300 White men in suits and ties—and a smattering of women—attended a sold-out American Renaissance conference, business consultant Jared Taylor’s Read More

Kevin Barrett: Repackaging Antisemitism

By Cloee Cooper, on October 23, 2017

Kevin Barrett speaks on Press TV, Iran’s conservative state-sponsored English-language TV network, about “9/11 Truth” Screenshot from Press TV News Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xksKokTwDqU, published on Nov. 7, 2014. Veterans Today, an online publication targeting U.S. veterans, came under fire this month Read More

Will Corporations, The Christian Right, and the Tea Party Get to Rewrite the Constitution?

By Peter Montgomery, on October 16, 2017

Click for PDF. This article appears in the Fall 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), the Tea Party icon who helped bring Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) into the Senate, was Read More

The Christian Right’s Growing Allegiance to Trump

By Cole Parke, on October 12, 2017

Donald Trump speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr. As Donald Trump exited the stage after addressing the 2016 Values Voter Summit (VVS) in Washington, DC a year ago, Read More

Prenatal Diagnosis, Reproductive Rights, and the Specter of Eugenics

By Diane Paul, on October 5, 2017

Click for PDF. This article appears in the Fall 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. In 2014, the state of Virginia enacted legislation shielding healthcare workers who provide genetic counseling from lawsuits if they withhold test results they think Read More

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