Culture Wars

2013

End of the Culture Wars?: Is the Christian Right’s Fury Spent For Now?, CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013.

2012

The Real Gatsby: The One-&-Owney, CounterPunch, May 14, 2012.

Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder. AlterNet, May 7, 2013.

Pregnant Women are NOT Incubators!: It’s Time to End the Right’s Campaign Against Women, CounterPunch, December 28-30, 2012.

The Return of Infidelity: The Last Frontier in the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, November 12, 2012.

Paying the Price: The Sexual Politics of Poverty. CounterPunch, May 11-13, 2012.

2011

“End Regulation Now”: Dreaming the Tea Party Nightmare. CounterPunch, October 4-16, 2011.

Christian Theocrats Stealth Plan to Seize Power. ANDmagazine, August 2011.

One Nation, Under God: The World According to Pastor Rich. CounterPunch, August 19-20, 2011.

Praying for Votes: The New Way to Buy an Election. CounterPunch, August 8-10, 2011.

The Pledge Plague: The Cheap Price of Virtue. ANDmagazine, July 23, 2011.

Questions Plague Bachmann: Playing the New Political Shell Game . ANDmagazine, July 18, 2011.

Salon: A New Intellectual Culture is Taking Shape Throughout the Country . AlterNet, May 9, 2011.

Culture Wars Redux: The Tea Party Congress and the Likely Return to Social Purity. CounterPunch, December 3-5, 2010.

Know-Nothings of 2010, Part Two: The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 20 – 22, 2010.

Know-Nothings of 2010: The New War of the Christian Crusaders, CounterPunch, August 13 – 15, 2010.

Bankrupt Morality: The Staying Power of Republican Sinners, CounterPunch, October 8, 2009.

Shouts From the Gallery: The Sotomayor Hearings and the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, July 15, 2009.

Cry, Hypocrite, Cry: Politicians and America’s Grand Tradition of Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, June 26-28, 2009.

Porn Wars: One Step Forward, Too Many Steps Backward in the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, May 22-24, 2009.

Nails in the Coffin: Last Gasps of the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, January 30-February 1, 2009.

A New Sexual Agenda: Nine Proposals for an End to the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, November 28-30, 2008.

The Great Fear: The Sexual Politics of Sarah Palin, CounterPunch, September 27-28, 2008

The Culture Wars Are Over: But Culture Warriors Still Terrorize America, CounterPunch, August 23-24, 2008.

The New Texas Two-Step: Polygamy & State Regulation of Sexual Life, CounterPunch, April 19-20, 2008.

Playing the Race Card: Barack Obama, Love Across the Colorline & Political Dirty Tricks, CounterPunch, February 27, 2008.

The Scarlet Hypocrites: Republicans, Christians and the All-American Politics of Adultery, CounterPunch, November 17-18, 2007.

Moral Hypocrisy on the Hill, Again: The Christian Right, Sexual Scandal and the Sexual Pleasures of the Courtesan, CounterPunch, July 17, 2007.

Those Who Preach in Glass Cathedrals: Rev. Ted Haggard & the Eclipse of Evangelical Fury, CounterPunch, November 15, 2006.

Perversions of Power: Mark Foley & the Bush Administration, CounterPunch, October 27-29, 2006.

Sex Panic on Capitol Hill: Mark Foley and the Politics of Sex in America, CounterPunch, October 10, 2006.

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