Despite increasingly frequent mass shootings and a growing dissatisfaction with current gun laws, American opposition to federal gun legislation remains strong. We show that opposition to stricter gun control is closely linked to Christian nationalism, a religious cultural framework that mandates a symbiotic relationship between Christianity and civil society. Using […] Read more »
Israel and Evangelicals: New U.S. Embassy Signals a Growing Alliance
… The culmination of decades of lobbying, the dedication of the embassy in Jerusalem this past week doubled as the most public recognition yet of the growing importance the Netanyahu government now assigns to its conservative Christian allies, even if some have been accused of making anti-Semitic statements. While Israel […] Read more »
Kathleen Hall Jamieson in Conversation with Marty Kaplan
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center, won the 2018 Ev Rogers Award. In this concise discussion, she and Norman Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan cover V.D. (viral deception), “fake” news, truth, comm theory, Trump, Putin, and much […] Read more »
Modern-day ‘Class Consciousness’ and ‘Class Resentment’
… There is, of course, tremendous resistance among social scientists and historians to the idea that American white workers can be said to have anything like a “class consciousness” at all. While it is considered acceptable to use the term to describe, for example, the attitudes of British working class […] Read more »
How California became the blue state alternative to Trump
For the California economy, surf’s up. And that could hasten the end of a long drought for the state in presidential politics. In early May, California marked a striking milestone in its recovery from its economic tailspin earlier in the 2000s when new data showed the state has surged past […] Read more »
White people get more conservative when they move up — not down — economically
President Trump’s election upended the conventional view of U.S. class politics. Republicans have long been considered the party of the affluent and upwardly mobile, while Democrats have appealed to the economically disadvantaged. But many observers have suggested that Trump “tapped into the anger of a declining middle class” rooted in […] Read more »