America has seen multiple wars in defense of white supremacy, from our bloodiest conflicts (Metacom's War, the Civil War) to our longest lasting ones (the Apache Wars) to our most far-flung ones (the "Filipino Insurrection," which is to say that the people of the Philippines did not prefer to be colonized by the US and... Continue Reading →

The ADL is doing a training on Sept 12 at USC to help campuses address hate crimes. I'd love to hear from people who are able to attend. And if you want to support this project but can't go, consider a donation to the ADL to support this important work.   Above, white supremacists meet... Continue Reading →

I recently got to review Antony Alumkal's Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality for Contemporary Sociology. In this book, Alumkal, a professor of the sociology of religion at Iliff School of Theology, identifies patterns of paranoid thinking in conservative Christians’ engagement with four issues: evolution, LGBTQ+ rights, bioethics, and climate change. Readers interested in any of... Continue Reading →