The Link between Hurricane Katrina and Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric
A historian reflects on how the devastating storm paved the way for the evangelical scapegoating of marginalized people today.
Thomas Lecaque
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Thomas Lecaque is an associate professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. He specializes in the nexus of apocalyptic religion and political violence. He has written for the Washington Post, Religion Dispatches, Foreign Policy and The Bulwark, among others.
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The Galloping Fascism of the Christian Right
In just the month of June 2022 alone, far-right conservatives launched physical, legislative, and cultural attacks on American society in an attempt to forcefully remake it in the image of Christian nationalism.