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Before he was House speaker, Mike Johnson represented a creationist museum in court. Here’s what that episode reveals about his politics.

Dec 12, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bodie Hodge, Carl Weinberg, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evolution, Freedom Guard, House Speaker, John Fea, Ken Ham, Marxism, Mike Johnson, Public Religion Research Institute, Red Dynamite, Righting America, School Shootings, Secularism, Social Evolution, Statement of Faith, Tax Breaks, The Lie, Young Earth Creationism | 2 comments

by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson takes questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 14, 2023. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Speaker of the House Mike...

Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars and Anticommunism in America: An Interview with Carl Weinberg (a.k.a., the perfect post for Labor Day)

Sep 6, 2021 | American Creationism, Answers in Genesis, Anticommunism, Bodie Hodge, Butler Act, Carl R. Weinberg, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Creationism, Culture War, Darwin, David Goldstein, Donald Trump, Evolution, Frederick Engels, George McCready Price, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Science, J. Frank Norris, John Scopes, Karl Marx, Ken Ham, Labor Battles, Martha Moore Avery, Marxism, Red Dynamite, Religion and Science, Robert Jeffress, Satanism, Science, Scopes Trial, Secularism, Social Evolution, Socialism, William Bell Riley, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism | 0 comments

by William Trollinger Book Cover for Carl R. Weinberg’s Red Dynamite: Creationism: Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (2021, Cornell University Press) Carl R. Weinberg is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor...