Tag: Project 2025

  • Epstein Files: Don’t Hold Your Breath

    I have noticed supposed left organizations considering the Epstein files their secret weapon and naively pouring energy into advocating release. It is a doomed strategy. Is it insightful that Trump has not already released the Epstein Files? Of course it is, partially because it indicates the state is probably hiding something, but more so because […]

  • Porn Again Christians: Evangelicals’ Porn Problem Meets Project 2025

    Porn Again Christians: Evangelicals’ Porn Problem Meets Project 2025

    Long before the Internet, evangelical church leaders were warning that pornography was corrupting the faithful. With the rise of social media and online platforms, access has exploded, making the fight against pornography one of the longest-running but least prioritized planks of the Christian conservative agenda, often overshadowed by battles over abortion, same-sex marriage, transgender rights, […]

  • Orwell, Bradbury, Burgess, and Atwood’s 20th Century Dystopian Tales Becoming 21st Century Reality

    Orwell, Bradbury, Burgess, and Atwood’s 20th Century Dystopian Tales Becoming 21st Century Reality

    Works of dystopian fiction, from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, once seemed like dark fantasies of an authoritarian future. Their themes were warnings, not forecasts. Now, in 21st Century America, with the political landscape being fashioned by Donald Trump, […]

  • Dealing with Government Repression, 2025

    The attempted deportation of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, met with dramatic and widespread resistance, is one of the first, high profile, specifically targeted repressive acts by the Trump regime, but it won’t be the last. There is no question about their intention to create a permanently repressive and dictatorial government, a government of, by and […]

  • Meta Shifts Right: Big Tech, Project 2025, and the Assault on DEI

    When Mark Zuckerberg terminated Meta’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring and training employees and procuring suppliers in January 2025, he forged “inroads with the incoming Trump administration,” abandoned Meta’s founding ethos of open innovation, and dramatically realigned how the tech giant will now do business, as critics like Bärí A. Williams, former lead counsel […]

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