Dinesh D’Souza is the former president of a Christian College and the author of What is So Great About Christianity. He is also a financial huckster who needed a Trump pardon. His version of “Christian” politics was on full display...
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Dinesh D’Souza’s “hilarious mockumentary”
If you read our twice-weekly “Evangelical Roundup” feature, you have heard about conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s “Big Lie” movie titled 2000 Mules. The movie premiered at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Over at the conservative website The Bulwark, Amanda Carpenter offers a...
Dinesh D’Souza gets to the bottom of Betty White’s death
The television personality Betty White recently passed away at the age of 99. Does conservative conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza expect foul play? This screenshot comes from Princeton’s Kevin Kruse’s Twitter feed: I don’t know what is going on here, but...
This is what too often passes for conservative evangelical politics today
Watch Dinesh D’Souza: Evangelical pastors invite D’Souza to speak at their churches and schools. In the last two years D’Souza has spoken at: Emmanuel Enid Church in Enid, Oklahoma Church of Glad Tidings in Live Oak, California Calvary Chapel–Chino Hills...
Faith and Freedom Coalition conference continues. Eric Metaxas says that members of the GOP who have not defended the Jan. 6 insurrectionists are “dead” to him.
Yesterday we kept you up to speed on the 2021 Road to Majority conference sponsored by Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition. If you want to get a feel for how Trump’s evangelical supporters are handling his loss and the...
Dinesh D’Souza is defending Ted Cruz’s trip to Cancun
While Texans were freezing in their homes, their senator was in Cancun. Now conservative pundit and convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza is defending Cruz’s decision: I’ll let Twitter respond to D’Souza’s tweet: D’Souza always talks about Christianity less as a faith...
Tony Perkins finds “cancel culture” in the Bible (and other Trump evangelical news, including Eric Metaxas’s book launch)
In the last several days we have seen the Republican Party get closer to the breaking point. Trumpism in the form of Marjorie Greene and her enablers is pitted in a war for control of the party against the likes...
A lot happened over Christmas break. How did the court evangelicals respond?
Earlier today, I wrote about some of the highlights of the last ten days. I mentioned the Nashville bombing, Trump’s handling of end of the year legislation, the president’s continued attempts at overturning the 2020 president election, and the support...
Trump knows he isn’t going to win, but the court evangelicals aren’t so sure
As I type, CNN is reporting that Donald Trump, despite his public pronouncements, knows he lost this election. But some of his most ardent evangelical supporters still believe the president was re-elected. Today was a special day for the court...
Why Liberty University should close the Falkirk Center, and why it probably won’t happen
If you want to understand what a university values, consider the kinds of centers and institutes they have on campus. Most centers and institutes are extra-curricular in nature and are designed to bolster the ideas and values that define the...
Wednesday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? John Hagee invited Fox News commentator, conspiracy theorist, disgraced Christian college president, and convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza to speak at the Sunday evening service at his Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnd5fMkIaA&w=560&h=315]...
Tuesday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update? Franklin Graham is on the stump for Trump. This is from his Facebook page : In the last presidential election in 2016, I reminded people across the country that the election was not about...
What Can Evangelicals Learn from Adam Schiff?
They can learn something about moral clarity. They can learn something about doing the right thing. They can learn something about patriotism. “If the truth doesn’t matter, we’re lost.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYV6qDU4Lk&w=560&h=315] Here is what Fox News had to offer in...
Quick Thoughts on Reagan’s Racist Remarks. Or What Say Ye Dinesh D’Souza and Friends?
By now you should know about the recently released audio recording of Ronald Reagan calling African people “monkeys.” Reagan, who was governor of California at the time, made the remarks to Richard Nixon in 1971. Listen to the remarks here and...
Nice Work Ted Cruz…Kinda
As readers of this blog now, I am not a big Ted Cruz fan. I criticized him heavily during the 2016 campaign and also covered him in Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. But I am glad to see this:...
Dinesh D’Souza Thinks He Knows Something About How African-American History is Taught
David Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr., will drop a bombshell tomorrow (Thursday) when Standpoint magazine will publish an article, based on memos that discuss FBI tapes, that paints the Civil Rights icon in a very unflattering...
Kevin Kruse on How to Challenge the Bad History Emanating From the Right
In Episode 34 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast we interviewed Princeton University historian Kevin Kruse about his work on Twitter. It remains one of our most popular episodes of the podcast. I encourage you to listen to...
Why We Must Challenge “Hackish History”
Some of you may recall our very popular podcast interview with Princeton University American historian and twitterstorian Kevin Kruse. You can listen to it here. Kruse has been busy lately. He got a lot of attention when he challenged conservative...
A Right-Wing Pundit Gets a History Lesson
I know a lot of you have been following Kevin Kruse‘s twitter take-down of right-wing pundit Dinesh D’Souza. Kruse, a professor of history at Princeton University, is challenging D’Souza’s claim that today’s Democratic Party is the party of racism because...
Trump: Dinesh D’Souza is a “great voice for America”
Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2018 D’Souza is right-wing pundit and conspiracy theorist. We have written about him several times...