In Alabama, the Church of the Highlands is kind of a big deal. A non-denominational church ministry with 21 campuses and reportedly more than 50,000 attendees on a normal week, this church is one that few know about but that plays an integral part in defining public religious life for…

On April 28, Dennis Prager’s online Youtube presence, Prager University, decided to tweet out the following: Prager himself, a well-established radio show personality among the political right, has been a vocal critic of the lockdowns in response to COVID-19 for a while now, stating in other videos and columns that…

One of the joyous (read: painful) back-and-forth dialogues of recent months has been the visibly growing tension between generations. No, generational conflict isn’t anything new. Still, the visibility of it through memes like OK Boomer has made it more contentious, especially as economic disparities grow among the youth. But it…

The political consultant known as Roger Stone has existed as an emblematic figure in queries regarding the corruption of the Trump administration. …

(This is a story I published on Kill Screen in 2013, but it was removed when Kill Screen went down. So I’ve updated it and reposted it here.) Religion and war are a fickle thing. Whether it’s the Jihadist call for the destruction of the Great Satan known as the…

So, one of the simple delights in time is seeing what sort of content Disney releases to the public. While the media conglomerate’s control over the spectrum of content continues to create a reason to be skeptical, it’s hard to deny that, in the last five years, Disney has turned…

This is an article written for my Sociological Theory course in the semester of Fall 2019, and is being republished for the sake of public access. A question that often permeates the media discourse in recent years regards that evergreen question of ‘What is it with the kids these days?”…

This is an article written for my Sociological Theory course in the semester of Fall 2019, and is being republished for the sake of public access. Apocalyptic descriptions of the future are a common affectation of public commentators. Some commentators gesture toward the rising climate temperatures as an impending threat…

One of the nice benefits of a job at Barnes and Noble is the ability to rent and read newer books in time. One of the books I picked up as part of that deal was Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea, a historian’s look…