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Chris Denny
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Our most recent AAUP TV episode, "Fighting Extreme Austerity Attacks at The New School," features faculty from AAUP - TNS who discuss the ongoing crisis at The New School and how organized higher ed workers are fighting back.

Full episode here👇
Fighting Extreme Austerity Attacks at The New School
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December 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Higher ed workers at The New School are rejecting the admin's strategies of divide and conquer to mount a unified challenge to austerity.

In this AAUP TV episode, Laura Liu of AAUP-TNS talks about how faculty, students & staff come together despite weaponized employment contracts that divide them.
December 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"A largely unspoken article of faith for Republicans is that access to medical care is a matter of personal responsibility. They don’t generally advertise this belief, because it is not popular."

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Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care
It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Ever since Jesus' birth, the struggle continues between those who want to look away from injustice and those who call it out. . . . Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders
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December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"The base has more people but it would still be smart to bet on the broligarchs. With fleeting Rooseveltian exceptions, America’s capitalist odyssey has been about the owners of capital finding ways of pitching labour’s have-nots against each other."

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Trump is choosing the broligarchs over his base
When historians assess this age of American populism, Silicon Valley’s plutocrats will surely be judged its winners
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December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
When Trump does stupid immoral stuff, more often than not it's because very rich dudes have persuaded him to do something that will win them even more money and influence.

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How a Man Convicted of Running a Latin American Narco State Landed a Pardon
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández’s unusual network of Trump allies and MAGA influencers helped deliver an extraordinary pardon to him.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Jamie Myrose has a new article in Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society.

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Retrieving Teresa of Avila’s Resiliency in the Interior Castle | Horizons | Cambridge Core
Retrieving Teresa of Avila’s Resiliency in the Interior Castle
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December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A video playlist with conversations about *Theology without Walls: Founding Essays,* now available on Amazon.

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Theology Without Walls: Founding Essays Conversation - YouTube
A focused playlist featuring the core conversations and videos connected to Theology Without Walls: Founding Essays, the volume that gathers the seminal essa...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Avoiding Black Friday? Vol. 8 in the JMT/CTEWC hybrid book series is now available--for free!

See: "Intercultural Theological Ethics: Fundamentals, Frameworks, Processes," co-edited by Sigrid Müller, Mirijam Salfinger, and Andrea Vicini, SJ.

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Vol. 8, Issue CTEWC Book Series 8, 2025 | Published by Journal of Moral Theology
Intercultural theological ethics explores how different manifestations and traditions of the Christian faith can ethically dialogue with one another to develop common ethical perspectives within the h...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Courtesy of libertarians, the US is turning the clock back 100 years.

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Exclusive | Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The "stable genius" doesn't know what he's doing.

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Trump Doesn’t Understand Inflation
Having promised to lower living costs, the president seems keen to make American life more expensive.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In this new virtual *Horizons* issue, Jessica Coblentz and María Del Socorro Castañeda respond to Elizabeth Johnson's 1985 article, "The Marian Tradition and the Reality of Women."

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Horizons Fiftieth Anniversary: Virtual Special Issue 2
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
From an interview with Jerry Martin and Rita Sherma about the new edited volume *Theology without Walls: Founding Essays,* ed. Christopher Denny and Rita Sherma (Caladium: 2025).

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Windows & the Beach: Hindu Theology and Theology Without Walls
YouTube video by Jerry L. Martin
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November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Think of this as a Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact for plutocrats.

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The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
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November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Trump seems to revel in getting away with speaking to women as president in ways that would land him on the sidewalk back in Queens."

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The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The fact that tens of millions of Americans still support this man as president is prima facie evidence of the political and moral decline of the United States.
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
William George has a new article in the journal Horizons.

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"This article invites readers to consider certain questions too rarely asked: What are we doing when we consider or fail to consider something or someone?"

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Let Us Consider Our Considerate and Inconsiderate Lives | Horizons | Cambridge Core
Let Us Consider Our Considerate and Inconsiderate Lives
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November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Federal judge Jerry Smith rants about Soros in a dissent . . . Why Are Media and Mainstream Jewish Orgs Ignoring Judge’s Antisemitic Dissent in Gerrymandering Case? religiondispatches.org/why-are-medi...
Why Are Media and Mainstream Jewish Orgs Ignoring Judge's Antisemitic Dissent in Gerrymandering Case?
It’s not often that you see a federal judge issue a frothing antisemitic diatribe and call it an “opinion.” You’d think that when that happened, there’d be an outcry—after all Trump has taken unpreced...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Austin Cruz has a new article in Horizons.

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This paper continues to draw out the theological and pastoral depth of Huei tlamahuiçoltica, specifically as the first Guadalupan hagiography.

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Huei Tlamahuiçoltica: The Hagiographic Origin of the Guadalupan Narrative and Spanish Ideals for Nahua Sanctity | Horizons | Cambridge Core
Huei Tlamahuiçoltica: The Hagiographic Origin of the Guadalupan Narrative and Spanish Ideals for Nahua Sanctity
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November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A new *Horizons* issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of the journal of the College Theology Society. Leo Lefebure and Kristine Suna-Koro respond to Peter Phan's 2012 article, "World Christianity: Its Implications for History, Religious Studies and Theology."
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Horizons Fiftieth Anniversary: Virtual Special Issue
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Rita Sherma and I interview Jerry Martin in conjunction with the release of the new book, *Theology without Walls: Founding Essays,* ed. Christopher Denny and Rita Sherma (Caladium: 2025).

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Theology Without Walls: Origins, Aims & Going Beyond Comparative Theology
YouTube video by Jerry L. Martin
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November 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM