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“The 50’s, for all their historical patina, were an age of post-war innovation: the mixer, the slow cooker, the top load dishwasher,” writes Lauren Parker in her review of this favorite of Witch cinema. “And for more than just these appliances: the invention of the nuclear family and its purity.”
A federal judge has permanently dismissed The Satanic Temple’s challenge to Idaho’s abortion bans, finding the group lacked standing and that no amendment could save its claims, ending years of litigation over religious freedom and reproductive rights.
Florida became the first state to adopt the Heritage Foundation’s Phoenix Declaration, a conservative education framework linked to Project 2025. Its framing draws heavily on Christian moral philosophy as a guiding vision for public education. More states are likely to follow.
“It seems like the United States is going through a real ‘Nazi moment’ for the past couple of weeks,” writes Ryan Smith of the Wayward Wanderer podcast, analyzing revelations on both the political Left and Right.
Happy Halloween! To celebrate, Karl E.H. Seigfried considers novels by George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus, F. Paul Wilson, and John Bellairs, and what their horrors can teach us about the horrors that face us today.
At Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, Indigenous and interfaith leaders continue a years-long fight to protect holy ground from a proposed copper mine, testing the boundaries of U.S. commitments to religious freedom and environmental justice.
