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  • Why Ex-Churchgoers Flocked to Trump

    Why Ex-Churchgoers Flocked to Trump0

    If you’ve ever been to a Donald Trump rally, you’ll notice it doesn’t match the impression left by the media coverage of the president’s base. Anger, for instance, isn’t the prevailing mood. Hopefulness is more characteristic. But there’s more. There’s something about these rallies that goes beyond politics, and his harshest critics have found it

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  • Why the Gillette Ad Has Been Misjudged and Deserves a Second Look

    Why the Gillette Ad Has Been Misjudged and Deserves a Second Look0

    When I clicked play on Gillette’s new ad, I was fully prepared to roll my eyes at it.     I was expecting something along the lines of Nike’s controversial Colin Kaepernick campaign, another example of (as several Twitter users have put it) “companies pretend[ing] to care about social justice to sell products to people

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  • How To Talk to Someone Who Wants To Put You In A Gulag

    How To Talk to Someone Who Wants To Put You In A Gulag0

    A few months ago, I was having a few beers with TAC managing editor Matt Purple, and we ended up pondering the great question of our times: why did people vote for Trump? After tossing around the usual answers (a reaction against Hillary’s hawkishness, his carefully curated aura of success, post-industrial blue collar angst), Matt told me

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  • A History Lesson on the Shifting Political Stances on Illegal Immigration

    A History Lesson on the Shifting Political Stances on Illegal Immigration0

    Here are a couple of easy immigration questions—answerable with a simple “yes” or “no”—we might ask any American of any political stripe: Does everyone in the world have a right to live in the U.S.? Do the American people have a right, through their elected representatives, to decide who has the right to immigrate to

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  • Human Rights Court Rules Against Parental Rights

    Human Rights Court Rules Against Parental Rights0

    Decades ago, when I was first ordained a priest, I shared a prejudice that many people hold: I thought homeschooling families were odd. I believed schooling children at home deprived such children of opportunities to be with other children causing them to be less able to communicate with others, socially awkward, and reclusive and narrow

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  • What 1990s True-Crime Shows and Movies Teach about America Today

    What 1990s True-Crime Shows and Movies Teach about America Today0

    “The more things change the more they stay the same.” Originally a French saying believed to have been coined in 1849, this phrase perfectly describes our current national obsession with revisiting the great media frenzies of the 1990s.  In 2016 Americans relived the drama of the O.J. Simpson trial with the documentary O.J.: Made in

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