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authoritarianism

This is what authoritarian regimes do

John Fea   |  February 14, 2025

In case you haven’t heard, the Trump White House has removed a searchable database of January 6, 2021 cases from the Department of Justice website. Here is Alec MacGillis at Pro Publica: TheĀ removal of the databaseĀ happened…quietly, but it is worthy […]

This pastor won’t let his wife read unless he approves of her reading material

John Fea   |  July 12, 2023

I’ve heard about this kind of extreme complementarianism, but I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed it quite like this. Joel Webbon of Right Response Ministries appears to embrace some mix of Seven Mountain Dominionism, theonomism, and Christian Recontructionism. He is […]

Snyder: “The war on history is a war on democracy”

John Fea   |  June 30, 2021

Yale historian Timothy Snyder sees a lot of similarities between the discussion of race happening right now in American schools and the 20th-century European totalitarianism regimes thought about the past. Here is a taste of his piece The New York […]