Sightings Articles
Progressives, Evangelicals, and Presidential Politics: What Love Has, and Hasn’t, Got to Do with It
A recent analysis of the dynamics of the 2016 presidential election in Sightings—Myriam Renaud, “Progressives: To Take Back the White House, Love Your White Evangelical Neighbors”—is useful. As Ms. Renaud says, the Clinton campaign failed to replicat...
October 5, 2017
Progressives: To Take Back the White House, Love Your White Evangelical Neighbors
How Progressives can improve their chances of recapturing the White House in 2020....
September 21, 2017
Anthropological Confusion, Epistemological Failure: Mainstream Media and Moderate, Orthodox Christians
A recent article on conservative trolls among the roiling White House press corps in The New Yorker can stand for a general ferment of fear and confusion among the Mainstream Media (MSM) in this era of Trumpian turmoil. What has happened to the good ...
April 6, 2017
Look for the Jews
Various news outlets have addressed the fact that the U.S. president’s published statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day intentionally omits specific reference either to Jews or to anti-Semitism. It does honor “the victims, survivors...
March 9, 2017
Rock, Paper, Scissors
With each passing day since the inauguration of Donald Trump the news cycle gets more punishing. Power is consolidated within the executive branch. The three-headed monster of authoritarianism, fear mongering and intimidation takes another step on it...
February 9, 2017
Myths Debunked: Why Did White Evangelical Christians Vote for Trump?
What motivated white evangelicals to vote for Trump in 2016: Abortion and supreme-court nominees? No. Terrorism, the economy, and immigration....
January 19, 2017
"A Hypothetical Miracle That Could Occur": Rudy's Augustine and Trump's Future
Surely one of the stranger moments of the recently completed U.S. presidential election season was when, on Sunday, October 9th, 2016, Rudy Giuliani compared Donald Trump to Augustine of Hippo. Speaking to John Dickerson on CBS’s Face the Nation, Giu...
November 17, 2016
After Trump
Editor's note. This is the fourth and last installment in our series on the Trump phenomenon, or “Trumpism,” and what it reveals about the relationship between religion and politics in America today. Special thanks to our previous contributors: Roger...
November 3, 2016
Redefining the American Civil Religion
Editor's note. This is the third in a series of essays on the Trump phenomenon—or "Trumpism," if such a thing can be defined—and what it reveals about the relationship between religion and politics in America today. Be sure to check out the previous ...