by Randall Balmer | Sep 17, 2025 | Opinion
During a recent podcast interview, I was asked to comment on David Barton and Charlie Kirk. They have been two of the most prominent fabulists promoting Christian nationalism, the fiction that the United States was founded as and should remain a Christian nation. I...
by Randall Balmer | Aug 26, 2025 | Opinion
The vital task of patrolling the wall of separation between church and state, America’s best idea, has enlisted some unlikely allies over the years. Although the motives animating some of those measures can undoubtedly be called into question, those contributions have...
by Randall Balmer | Jul 7, 2025 | Opinion
Jimmy Swaggart didn’t want to talk with me. He really didn’t want to talk with me. I flew to Baton Rouge in 1998, ten years after his famous—infamous!—confession that he had sinned against various people, including the Almighty. I had never been a fan of the...
by Randall Balmer | Jun 18, 2025 | Opinion
Southern Baptists are at it again. Meeting in Dallas last week, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, passed several resolutions addressing the critical issues of our time. They resolved to ban pornography, oppose...
by Randall Balmer | May 21, 2025 | Opinion
David Horowitz, the right-wing flamethrower, died on April 29. I recall very well when he brought his act to Dartmouth in an attempt to smoke out campus radicalism. I suspect he went away disappointed. Both campus security and Hanover police officers were present to...
