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This Week in Demonology: March of the Fraidycrats
"Masculine maximalism" is not the right frame for all the slashing and burning
Feb 21 • 
Whitney Phillips+Mark Brockway
This Week in Demonology: History Repeating
The more the liberal devil changes, the more it stays the same
Feb 6 • 
Whitney Phillips+Mark Brockway
Is Polarization the Right Frame?
What it means when one half of the left/right binary isn’t actually a solid thing
Oct 24, 2024 • 
Whitney Phillips+Mark Brockway
Religion without Religion
How JD Vance’s election denialism is a matter of quasi-faith
Oct 18, 2024 • 
Whitney Phillips+Mark Brockway
Election 2024 Hurricane Watch
The anti-liberal frame pushing Great Replacement to Revelation Lite
Oct 11, 2024 • 
Whitney Phillips+Mark Brockway
Project 2025 Deserves Public Scrutiny. So Does the Republican Party Platform.
Trump’s policy platform isn’t more moderate, it just shifts demonological frames
Aug 12, 2024 • 
Whitney Phillips+Mark Brockway
The Three Frames of Demonology
Conspiracy theories are only part of the anti-liberal playbook
Aug 7, 2024 • 
Whitney Phillips+Mark Brockway
Desperately Seeking Satan
The weird, minoritarian politics of demon obsession
Aug 3, 2024 • 
Whitney Phillips+Mark Brockway
Political Demonology
Political Demonology
Where we discuss political demonology and religious rhetoric (which is often only semi-religious) in the United States, drawing on ideas from our forthcoming book The Shadow Gospel (MIT Press, 2025)

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