Culture Wars

• “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.