Popular – Gus diZerega

Donald Trump, the Antchrist, and Power

Posted on September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 by Gus

I obviously do not believe Biblical prophecies have a divine source in any sense. At the same time, I am fascinated by the power coherent images and attitudes have to influence people’s perceptions and experiences, especially when shared by many … Read more

The Pathology of NeoConservative ‘Manliness’

Posted on June 1, 2020December 19, 2020 by Gus

Harvey Mansfield is a leading Neoconservative scholar, as well as having been Bill Kristol’s mentor at Harvard. In 2006 Mansfield published Manliness to facilitate supposedly emasculated American males in regaining pride in their inner selves, while persuading emasculating American women … Read more

Strange Bedfellows: The Christian Right, Radical Islam, and the Hindu Right

Posted on June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 by Gus

Radical Islam easily finds common ground with the religious right on women’s issues. This point ultimately led Dinesh D’Souza to blame American cultural freedoms for the Islamic radicals’ legitimate dislike of us! D’Souza is an important conservative writer, biographer of … Read more

Neoconservatism’s Paradoxical Origins

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Neoconservatism has a complex parentage, partly home grown and even more European. It originally grew out of tensions internal to many liberals who made up a crucial part of the Democratic coalition Franklin Roosevelt had created, a coalition that had … Read more

Power, Evil, and the Crisis of Our Times: an animist view

Posted on January 31, 2020January 11, 2022 by Gus

Gus diZerega

Presented at the Conference on Current Pagan Studies, Jan. 25-6, 2020

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In 2013 I published Faultlines: The 60s, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine. Written largely in 2010, … Read more

The right wing’s Orwellian manipulation of ‘socialism’

Posted on April 13, 2019April 13, 2019 by Gus

All of a sudden, some right wing online commentators are emphasizing that Scandinavian nations are “not socialist.” I am seeing this claim in many places of late. But for years, decades even, right wing commentators have called Sweden in particular … Read more

Why arguments against abortion fail

Posted on May 7, 2018March 17, 2022 by Gus

I am struck with how the debate over whether or not abortion is morally acceptable has become a battle of slogans rather than of reason. I think the major culprits are on the so-called ‘pro life’ side, but at this … Read more

Transforming the Cultural Appropriation Debate: Pagan and magickal insights.

Posted on September 2, 2017April 28, 2023 by Gus

The common academic issue of whether or not one engages in ‘cultural appropriation’ has divided the Pagan community. I have been very explicit in my dislike of the idea, but in working out just why I dislike the concept I … Read more

Thoughts on shooting Congressmen and the dissolution of America

Posted on June 14, 2017June 23, 2017 by Gus

The attempted murder of several Congressmen and shooting of one marks another step in the progressive dissolution of the U.S. occurring before our eyes. That the shooter could have been either from the right or the left indicates how close … Read more

Why would Russia want Trump to win? And why would Trump go long with it?

Posted on November 2, 2016January 8, 2017 by Gus

In an inexplicably naïve article Brendan Gauthier at Salon argued that Russia was the only country that seemed to want Donald Trump to be president. But rather than asking why this is so, or wondering what Russia might reasonably do … Read more