Articles

Mothers of White Supremacy: Q&A with Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

By Kelly J. Baker, on March 22, 2018

Although historically, White women have supported the political, cultural, and social systems of White supremacy, there’s still a surprising level of confusion and shock when White women today do the same. Media narratives continue to assume, against evidence, that women’s Read More

White Supremacy’s Old Gods: The Far Right and Neopaganism

By Shannon Weber, on February 1, 2018

This article appears in the Winter 2018 edition of The Public Eye magazine. In 2014, a White supremacist leader, Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr. (also known as F. Glenn Miller), killed three people outside Jewish organizations in Overland Park, Kansas. Although Read More

One Year In: A Q&A with Tarso Luis Ramos

By Kathryn Joyce, on January 19, 2018

This article appears in the Winter 2018 edition of The Public Eye magazine. On the anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration, PRA Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos talks about some of what’s changed in the past year, and what progressives should Read More

A Manual to Restore a Christian Nation that Never Was

By Frederick Clarkson, on January 19, 2018

This article appears in the Winter 2018 edition of The Public Eye magazine. In October 2017, I was perusing the exhibit area of the Values Voter Summit, the annual political conference of the Family Research Council (FRC), when I was Read More

In the Court of the Centrist King: Emmanuel Macron and Authoritarian Liberalism

By Ajay Singh Chaudhary, on November 28, 2017

This article appears in the Winter 2018 edition of The Public Eye magazine. “New Labour.” – Margaret Thatcher, when asked about her life’s greatest achievements. “America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version.” – Read More

Hiding in Plain Sight: An American Renaissance of White Nationalism

By Donna Minkowitz, on October 26, 2017

This article appears in the Fall 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. From July 28-30, nearly 300 White men in suits and ties—and a smattering of women—attended a sold-out American Renaissance conference, business consultant Jared Taylor’s annual spectacle of Read More

Will Corporations, The Christian Right, and the Tea Party Get to Rewrite the Constitution?

By Peter Montgomery, on October 16, 2017

This article appears in the Fall 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), the Tea Party icon who helped bring Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) into the Senate, was ousted after four Read More

Prenatal Diagnosis, Reproductive Rights, and the Specter of Eugenics

By Diane Paul, on October 5, 2017

This article appears in the Fall 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. In 2014, the state of Virginia enacted legislation shielding healthcare workers who provide genetic counseling from lawsuits if they withhold test results they think might dispose a Read More

Life’s Work: A Conversation with Dr. Willie Parker

By Patricia Miller, on September 25, 2017

This article appears in the Fall 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. In his new book, Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice, Dr. Willie Parker recounts his conversion from a fundamentalist Christian who abhorred abortion to what he Read More

Disunite the Right: The Growing Divides in the Pepe Coalition

By Shane Burley, on September 19, 2017

By the time Richard Spencer, the man responsible for coining and popularizing the term Alt Right, made his way to the front of the crowd on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and took the microphone, anger was already brimming Read More