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Continue reading →: We Want to Believe in Ghosts
By Joe LaGuardia In a rare one-season return, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) are back to their old shananigans in The X Files. The show presents audiences with mysteries old (the cigarette man is back) and new (technology has caught up with the…
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Continue reading →: Religious Nationalism, Revivalism Rising on the world stage
By Joe LaGuardia Every election year, we see the influence of a demographic voting block, often pitched as a uniform, monolithic movement, called “evangelicalism”. Evangelicalism, a loosely-defined subculture in American Christianity, rose to political prominence under the Christian Coalition in the late 1970s and has championed major reforms and legislation that transcend partisanship. Now,…

