Kyle Callahan's Blog

Almost a century ago, fundamentalists mapped European dictators and New Deal bureaucrats on to biblical prophecy. During the cold war, evangelicals scanned Moscow and Jerusalem for signs of the Beast. In the first Gulf war, some Christians argued that Saddam Hussein was the antichrist who was rebuilding the Tower of Babel. Whenever American power felt […]

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What holds these two beliefs – the desire to cut public spending, the free-market fundamentalism on one side, and the Christian faith on the other – together? It is certainly true that, in today’s political reality in the United States, the two often find themselves in a coalition; but is it not worth asking why […]

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An AI-generated government “minister” made its debut with an address in the Albanian parliament on Thursday, with Prime Minister Edi Rama presenting the bot as a symbol of his government’s push for transparency and innovation. The government said the bot — named Diella, which means sun in Albanian, and depicted as a woman in traditional […]

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Justice Neil Gorsuch [raised] a more sophisticated version of the “can we really trust health care professionals?” question [than Justice Alito’s idiotic version]. As [Justice Gorsuch] noted, back in the 1970s “homosexuality” was considered a disorder by the mental health profession. So, under Colorado’s proposed rule [that would allow the state to ban conversion therapy], […]

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More than two centuries after Shays’ Rebellion, the institutions crafted at the Founding and the wider system they have shaped make it extraordinarily difficult for majorities of the mass public to make economic policy and curb inequality—just as the Founders intended. – The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American […]

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On September 22, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order “Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.” According to the executive order, “Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute […]

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The most important move Trump made in his remarks [about the assasination of Charlie Kirk] was to define political violence as an exclusively left-wing tactic. He listed a series of events carefully selected to implicate his enemies and exonerate his allies. Trump’s list goes back to the 2017 shooting of Steve Scalise, but omits the […]

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We’re living in a time where old ideas crack under the pressure of constant change. I look at three ideas used by the Trump Administration, and show why they make us less prepared for the future.

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Had [Tucker] Carlson and his cohort attempted their revisionism [of Hitler’s evilness] 20 years ago, they would have encountered a chorus of contradiction from real people who had experienced the history they sought to rewrite and know where its conspiratorial calumnies lead. But today, most of those people are dead, and a new generation is […]

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The Trump administration is threatening to sue and withhold federal funds from more than 20 “sanctuary” states, cities and counties, because of their lack of cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The new list, released Aug. 5 by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs, includes three states and one city in New England: […]

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