The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/perspectives/editorial)
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to rescind rules that required companies to tell investors about their role in climate change. Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott argues it’s all part of the Trump administration’s policy of ignorance around climate.
National Religious Freedom Day marks a legal tradition meant to restrain government power over belief. But the 2026 proclamation signals a shift, recasting religious liberty from constitutional protection into a state-driven project promoting public faith and privileging one religious tradition.
Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reflects on events that unfolded this weekend. As bombs fell and political justifications followed, Venezuelan civilians paid the price. Venezuela is not an abstraction or a geopolitical chessboard, but a real place, filled with real people whose lives were extinguished without warning. This editorial examines power, accountability, and the moral cost of treating distant suffering as disposable.
Looking toward 2026, our communities face uncertainty, but we have practiced resilience to an art. Amid political noise and cultural strain, care, memory, and mutual support remain our strongest tools for survival—quiet acts that resist erasure and sustain meaning through turbulent times.
Lucas Miles’ The Pagan Threat has become a New York Times bestseller, warning of a “pagan uprising.” Yet the greater concern is not the book itself, but the silence surrounding it, raising troubling questions about interfaith integrity, pluralism, and who truly counts in America’s religious landscape.
David French frames Vance Boelter as a “Christian assassin” —today’s editorial looks at why the rise of Christian extremism calls for awareness and sacred resistance from the Pagan community.
