Sightings Articles

Putin's American Comrades and Our Post-Truth Moment
The recent growth of Russian Orthodoxy in Appalachia has roots in the Kremlin's disinformation campaigns
December 10, 2020

What Trump's "Lies" Have to Do with (Political) Religion
Reviewers of former FBI director James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Flatiron, 2018) have fixed on the second of the three terms in the book’s subtitle. In one widely disseminated quote, Comey compares the flagrant dishonesty...
April 19, 2018

The Front National and the "Religion" of Ethnic Nationalism
The radical right is increasingly mainstream throughout Europe. Sarah de Lange notes how, since the 1990s, radical right-wing parties have joined coalition governments in Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, and...