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mccraryc.bsky.social
I write and teach about US religion, secularism, religious freedom, spirituality, race, politics, etc. Assistant prof of religious studies at Eckerd College. https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/
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reading Malcolm Harris's good (go read it, really) review of Abundance, i wonder if we're stuck in an era of imprecise thinking - pseudo-intellectuals monopolizing periodicals, podcasts, books, and now our imaginative space

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Just an absolutely, fundamentally wrong way to report this research. AI models do not experience "anxiety" or any other emotion. This is misinforming the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

good time to read or reread this one from Erik Baker in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/the-fortress...

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conservative education policy in a nutshell: starve the system to get middle class parents to put their kids in private schools and then teach junk and slop to everyone left behind

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Facebook is blocking readers from sharing The Nerd Reich newsletter. I assumed this was a simple error rather than nefarious censorship. But Meta support says my newsletter might be blocked because it "addresses topics like the 'Network State' concept and critiques of tech industry figures." 👀

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

The Anti-Defamation League, which still calls itself a civil rights organization, endorses disappearing US permanent residents with green cards. The moral stain of this will never wash off.

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

Imagine if 40 years from now, Nico Harrison was still running the Dallas Mavericks. That's basically the Democratic party.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

More like Farce Fest

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A natalist conference featuring eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a race-science influencer account, and the founder of a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos, will be held at a hotel and conference venue operated by UT Austin.

submitted 16 days ago • 52 comments

the reactionary centrist dorks who have spent the past several years whining about edge cases in women's sports should be forced to go do some reporting on Iowa landlords discriminating against people they rightly or wrongly assume are trans

submitted 18 days ago • 77 comments

The latest issue of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation is now available through Cambridge University Press. The Journal explores the interplay between religion and other spheres of American culture. Follow along as we share more about these articles!

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

This is so cool. I love living like this. I think we should run the country like a lonely and confused 74yo's Facebook feed—same concerns, same level of attention to detail, same approach to problem-solving.

submitted 22 days ago • 29 comments

No matter what, you have to live

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 25 days ago • 255 comments

Reminder that nuking the Deep State just means replacing it with Palantir aka Deep State 2.0

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

not dangerous like an evil genius. dangerous like a dog driving a train

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

Couldn't be more excited to be hosting THE SCOPES TRIAL AT 100: SECULARISM, RACE, AND EDUCATION at Penn on March 20-21! When we first planned this last year, the idea that the Scopes Trial was linked contemporary politics and culture seemed plausible enough. Now it's overwhelmingly clear.

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From the article: "Alex Hoffman, a Democratic donor adviser [said] 'These donors are also pissed, watching former and current colleagues have unlimited, unchecked power, and getting richer off of this and they’re not.'" They do not care about regular people. Just money and power.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Leslie Ribovich and I wrote about the St. Isidore case, which is not the *most pressing* threat to American democracy but is certainly connected to them. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Leslie Ribovich and I wrote about the St. Isidore case, which is not the *most pressing* threat to American democracy but is certainly connected to them. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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According to a study by the survivor advocacy group Know Your IX, 40% of women students who report sexual violence to their schools wind up dropping out, transferring, or taking a prolonged leave of absence. 40%.

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

Musk is the culmination of a slow-moving corporate coup by the oligarch class that has been decades in the making. But that doesn't change the fact that this marks a new and unspeakably dangerous chapter.

submitted 46 days ago • 67 comments

Reminder! Deadline is Friday.

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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

submitted 49 days ago • 58 comments

U.S. megacorps dump mountains of cash into AI, get shown up by a Chinese startup operating at a tiny fraction of the cost, and this guy's takeaway is we need to invest even more in this money pit rather than that our corporations are corrupt. Cool!

submitted 50 days ago • 38 comments

As Biden is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte E. Rosen wonders: what was the Resistance “Twitterstorian”? Well-paid liberal “attack dogs” of democracy like Heather Cox Richardson proved to be all too willing to turn to Democratic Party apologia—especially on Gaza. proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

submitted 57 days ago • 13 comments

"Are Gaza and the West Bank merely the targets of a grand real estate project, as Jared Kushner unashamedly confessed during a conversation at the Harvard Kennedy School?" @joelleabirached.bsky.social

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

If you'd like to be part of a workshop and special issue on religion and eugenics - a topic that should be very prevalent in the "science and religion" literature but isn't - then check out this CFP and send us something by Jan 31! www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/1...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

If you'd like to be part of a workshop and special issue on religion and eugenics - a topic that should be very prevalent in the "science and religion" literature but isn't - then check out this CFP and send us something by Jan 31! www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/1...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

AI is wreaking havoc on the climate, Silicon Valley is paying fealty to the MAGA movement, and that means it’s time to reinvigorate Disconnect for this next stage of the tech dystopia. Disconnect is back with a renewed ambition to provide tech analysis without the boosterism and bootlicking.

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

Been waiting for a case like this... www.universalhub.com/2024/boston-...

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the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none

submitted 75 days ago • 61 comments

I have a brilliant plan, all I need is: - the copyright to everything - all the money in the world

submitted 81 days ago • 141 comments

Not sure what to use this app for, but here are some music things. Album of the year was the self-titled Foxing album, in which a group of geniuses does whatever they want. foxingtheband.bandcamp.com/album/foxing

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

I'm proud of this collection of online essays on "religion and energy" published by @religionssrc.bsky.social. In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation. intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

"Every once in a while, an academic book comes along that crystallizes a broad scholarly conversation in a particularly artful way. Charles McCrary's _Sincerely Held_ is such a book." From my contribution to a review forum, out today with Religious Studies Review: doi.org/10.1111/rsr....

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

academic.oup.com/jah/article-... My JAH article on how anti-immigrant violence in the borderlands contributed to the human rights movement: the Hanigan case shows us the ways undocumented people and their advocates have defended migrants’ human and civil rights in the face of unspeakable violence

submitted 111 days ago • 9 comments

Hello! For those who don't know me or my work, I think, write, and advocate for religious liberty + gender justice. Here's my latest big project: lawrightsreligion.org/our-work/brlc

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