Extended Interviews

I think that the wider public hasn’t grasped the ideological roots, nor the fact that the destruction of government – and they have found the weapon to do it – has long been [...]

As the nation once again struggles to cope with a mass shooting – in what has become far too common an occurrence – the portrait emerging of a deeply troubled young man with easy access to [...]

Maybe the worst thing about the “ex-gay” distraction is the way it can leverage sincere faith in the service of a false dichotomy. “God or homosexuality: you have to choose,” LGBT persons and [...]

Everyone knows that there’s a conflict between the West and radical Islam right now; and the Jewish community’s particularly been vulnerable to this. But I feel like I’m not [...]

I don’t debate today with members of the flat earth society – that issue’s closed; you know, it’s not one that anybody wants to debate. I don’t debate about whether [...]

 They taught me that segregation was the will of God, and quoted the bible to prove it. They taught me that women were inferior to men by nature, and quoted the bible to prove it. They taught [...]

People who are of different religious backgrounds but are politically progressive and very similar to one another in that sense – that kind of interfaith organizing is valuable, and there [...]

In recent years, no public debate is complete, it seems, until the US Constitution is dragged into it.  Whether it be Obamacare, gun control, NSA spying allegations, or religious liberty, the [...]

It’s always been the case, in self defense for example, that if you have a way to run away, that you are supposed to do that rather than use deadly force – that’s of course in [...]

We found that with each successively younger generation, the appeal of religious conservatism goes down. There’s a straight, linear correlation between age and religious conservatism. [...]