Theocracy Now!

Bethany Moreton (Dartmouth)

When Christian nationalists tell us what they want, we should take them at their word. From the Bolshevik Revolution and the Spanish Civil War through MAGA’s unapologetic fascism, U.S. theocrats have forged international alliances to enforce sexual conformity, racial purity, and gender rigidity. In the twenty-first century, their ranks have been joined by unlikely recruits: Silicon Valley’s techno-libertarians are the latest entrepreneurs of American religious revival with global ambitions. Dismissed for decades as mere distractions from the weighty matters of law and economics, theocrats aspire to a sacred market order—and their stock is rising.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Image used with kind permission of the artists Mindaugus Bonanu and Dominykas Ceckauskas. " Make Everything Great Again" 2016, Vilnius.