The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/perspectives/editorial)
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma superintendent of schools, is angling for a cabinet position in a potential Trump administration. Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott looks at how he’s planning to punch his ticket: by spending millions of tax dollars on Bibles endorsed by Donald Trump.
Concern about Project 2025 is widespread; the hype is that it is a playbook for undermining our freedoms and suppressing dissent. For the folks looking ahead to a long editorial and looking for the TL,DR: the hype is not wrong. Project 2025 is a takedown of every advance of civil liberties, worker freedoms, and women’s bodily sovereignty of the last 100 years. But there’s plenty more to digest.
The Supreme Court overturned the long-standing doctrine of Chevron Deference this morning, which will drastically lessen the power of federal agencies to protect the environment and consumers. Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott surveys the wreckage.
A newly published book titled ‘Pagan America’ raises concerns about the decline of Christianity and stirs apprehensions regarding the resurgence of Paganism, cautioning that “Evil is coming.”
TWH’s editor-in-chief, Manny Tejeda Moreno, looks forward to 2024 through a review of the documentary “The Mission,” whose story of a Christian missionary killed by an uncontacted tribe unwilling to be converted portends a continued rise in spiritual violence.
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the best of the weekend section from 2023’s offerings in The Wild Hunt, including the most popular article of the year, Meg Elison’s “Barbie is the new Inanna.”
