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Why I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian Nationalism

During graduate school, Chris Hedges took ethics classes with James Luther Adams, an American theologian who spent time in Germany during…

Sep 1, 2022

Why I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian Nationalism

Sep 1, 2022

We Must Speak Out Now, Not When It Becomes Acceptable

A few weeks ago, I was on a flight back to Atlanta from a trip to Mexico. Right before we landed, a storm popped up over the Atlanta…

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We Must Speak Out Now, Not When It Becomes Acceptable

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Amidst the Cruelty, Where Do You Stan

Years ago, when I taught in Louisiana, I remember a student walking into the classroom with an “Angola, a gated community” t-shirt. I grew…

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Amidst the Cruelty, Where Do You Stan

5d ago

“Life’s an exercise in making memories”: Our Sustained Existence

Jul 2

“Life’s an exercise in making memories”: Our Sustained Existence

Jul 2

Beauty Amongst Violence in “The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in The Warsaw Ghetto”

Over the past few weeks, I’ve read Hans Massaquoi’s Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany and Mary Berg’s diary that she…

Jun 29

Beauty Amongst Violence in “The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in The Warsaw Ghetto”

Jun 29

Exploration and Colonization in John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”

At the end of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Nick Carraway goes over to Gatsby’s dark, empty house then heads down to the…

Jun 25

Exploration and Colonization in John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”

Jun 25

“What do little girls like to do?”: Confronting Sexual Violence and Sexual Assault in Punk

When she started at Evergreen State College, Kathleen Hanna’s roommate Alle had a poster or the Crass’ Eve Libertine on the wall with some…

Jun 22

“What do little girls like to do?”: Confronting Sexual Violence and Sexual Assault in Punk

Jun 22

“I’ve always done what is right”

If you’ve been reading me for a while, you know that while I typically write essays, I occasionally write short stories. I’ve published…

Jun 17

“I’ve always done what is right”

Jun 17

“Everything burns”: Facades and Identity in S.A. Cosby’s “King of Ashes”

Last year, I read three of S.A. Cosby’s novels (I still need to read Blacktop Wasteland), and I was instantly hooked. When I heard about…

Jun 15

“Everything burns”: Facades and Identity in S.A. Cosby’s “King of Ashes”

Jun 15

History and the American Dream in James McBride “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”

Jun 11

History and the American Dream in James McBride “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”

Jun 11

Matthew Teutsch

Matthew Teutsch

Here, you will find reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy.

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