Charlie McCrary
@mccraryc.bsky.social
I write and teach about US religion, secularism, religious freedom, spirituality, race, politics, etc. Assistant prof of religious studies at Eckerd College.
https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/
https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
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Some of you are not seeing history as one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of your feet, and it shows
June 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Some of you are not seeing history as one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of your feet, and it shows
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
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Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools
After the Supreme Court tied on religious charters, Alliance Defending Freedom asked a Colorado school district lawyer to initiate a "parallel case," according to emails obtained by Chalkbeat. A self-described Christian public school opened a few months later. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools
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caliper-wielding eugenicist freaks are gonna keep saying this, keep circling the toilet bowl talking about predicting someone's sexuality or personality or ethnicity or whatever else w/AI
and it being bullshit won't matter; it being a pretext for state/admin/other violence will be all that matters
and it being bullshit won't matter; it being a pretext for state/admin/other violence will be all that matters
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
caliper-wielding eugenicist freaks are gonna keep saying this, keep circling the toilet bowl talking about predicting someone's sexuality or personality or ethnicity or whatever else w/AI
and it being bullshit won't matter; it being a pretext for state/admin/other violence will be all that matters
and it being bullshit won't matter; it being a pretext for state/admin/other violence will be all that matters
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At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
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Election day and keeping fingers crossed for NYC! Resharing my June article on Zohran Mamdani and the Islamophobia of the mayoral race, which has only gotten more egregious in the last weeks: arcmag.org/zohran-mamda...
Zohran Mamdani and the Making of a “Muslim Menace” | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
In a campaign mailer designed by a PAC supporting disgraced former New York governor and current mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo, Queens assembly member Zohran Mamdani’s image appears with his beard digi...
arcmag.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Election day and keeping fingers crossed for NYC! Resharing my June article on Zohran Mamdani and the Islamophobia of the mayoral race, which has only gotten more egregious in the last weeks: arcmag.org/zohran-mamda...
Anyone religion scholars (and/or Boston residents) going to be at AAR a day early and want to see a Stay Inside show with me on Thurs, 11/20?
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Anyone religion scholars (and/or Boston residents) going to be at AAR a day early and want to see a Stay Inside show with me on Thurs, 11/20?
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i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Good time to revisit this clear - and, it turns out, prescient - book from Finbarr Curtis. If you would like to think about profanation, civility, Trump, etc. (e.g., AI videos of the president dropping shit on people), read this. cup.columbia.edu/book/going-l...
Going Low | Columbia University Press
Liberalism puts its trust in civil discourse and rational argument. Today, its opponents enthusiastically flout these norms, making a show of defying so-call... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good time to revisit this clear - and, it turns out, prescient - book from Finbarr Curtis. If you would like to think about profanation, civility, Trump, etc. (e.g., AI videos of the president dropping shit on people), read this. cup.columbia.edu/book/going-l...
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people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.
October 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.
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the dork in question is Jed Rubenfeld, husband of Amy Chua of Tiger Mom fame, who also mentored Vance. The fix was in, and it was most likely a very gentle 'debate'
At Yale Political Union, 72% of students voted against Curtis Yarvin’s resolution to “end the democratic experiment.”
He debated a Yale Law professor on the question.
New rule: Anyone who “debates” Yarvin is an even bigger and more desperate dork.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
He debated a Yale Law professor on the question.
New rule: Anyone who “debates” Yarvin is an even bigger and more desperate dork.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
Yarvin argues for American monarchy at closed-door debate
Curtis Yarvin, who is known for his anti-democratic views, argued to “end the democratic experiment” against Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld in front of the Yale Political Union Tuesday evenin...
yaledailynews.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
the dork in question is Jed Rubenfeld, husband of Amy Chua of Tiger Mom fame, who also mentored Vance. The fix was in, and it was most likely a very gentle 'debate'
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perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
October 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
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“You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line” lmao
October 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line” lmao
I would really like to read an article analyzing the Peloton hashtag #irideforcharliekirk. I am sure there is some useful theoretical framework here, but it’s a bit beyond my reach.
October 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I would really like to read an article analyzing the Peloton hashtag #irideforcharliekirk. I am sure there is some useful theoretical framework here, but it’s a bit beyond my reach.
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NEW CRITICAL AI SERIES CLUSTER, "Gen AI and/as Religion" - edited by @johnmodern.bsky.social
criticalai.org/2025/10/01/c...
Please share widely!
criticalai.org/2025/10/01/c...
Please share widely!
CAI SPECIAL SERIES CFP: FEEL THE AGI! GEN AI AND/AS RELIGION
Special Topic Series in Critical AIFeel the AGI! On (Generative) AI and/as ReligionSeries Editor John Modern (Franklin & Marshall College) The language of religion courses through the AI hype m…
criticalai.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
NEW CRITICAL AI SERIES CLUSTER, "Gen AI and/as Religion" - edited by @johnmodern.bsky.social
criticalai.org/2025/10/01/c...
Please share widely!
criticalai.org/2025/10/01/c...
Please share widely!
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If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump.
All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing
All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing
September 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump.
All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing
All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing
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Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Disabling Intelligences
This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.
link.springer.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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"Whatever nuance is needed for its interception, resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets a personal chatbot. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Whatever nuance is needed for its interception, resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."
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This week has really crushed my last dregs of hope that legacy news organizations can become capable of meeting the moment.
September 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This week has really crushed my last dregs of hope that legacy news organizations can become capable of meeting the moment.