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Katherine Kelaidis

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Bad Bunny reminded America of its bilingual roots

The singer's Spanish-language halftime show triggered MAGA — even though we were once a nation of many languages

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Salon

Katherine Kelaidis

The “Odyssey” casting furor obscures a deeper history

Christopher Nolan's film reveals the fight over cultural ownership of ancient Greece

22.07.2026 8

Salon

Katherine Kelaidis

How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry

Every nation sustains itself with mythmaking. This is why Augustus commissioned Virgil to write The Aeneid at the moment the emperor was transforming...

06.07.2026 20

New Republic

Katherine Kelaidis

Could Catholics be the key to Trump’s opposition?

Donald Trump’s second administration has been a reckoning for America, and perhaps especially for America’s Christians. From the deployment of...

15.01.2026 40

Vox

Katherine Kelaidis

Taxing the churches won’t stop Christian nationalism

Withdrawing tax-exempt status for religious organizations would have dangerous consequences

16.11.2025 30

Salon

Katherine Kelaidis

How the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk is transforming MAGA

Charlie Kirk has been turned into the first martyr of the MAGA faith. And this matters because it is martyr veneration that helped both Christianity...

24.09.2025 30

Vox

Katherine Kelaidis

Russia’s Troubling Church Takeover

20.09.2025 30

Foreign Policy

Katherine Kelaidis

“Debate Me” Bro culture has ruined civil discourse

How entertainment culture has replaced genuine political dialogue

17.09.2025 30

Salon

Katherine Kelaidis

The old “religious right” is dead. The new one is stranger — and harder to fight.

For over six decades, the “religious right” in America was boomer “Christian nationalism,” straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale. It was about...

13.06.2025 30

Vox

Katherine Kelaidis