Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

For those who can't be there, I'll so a version of the speech here at Political Cortex, perhaps in broken into several parts and spread out over a few weeks.

Anyway, here is the promotional blurb that went out with the announcment:

Frederick Clarkson is a widely published independent journalist, author who has written about politics and religion for over twenty years.  

He is the author of Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy, which  The Humanist magazine called "the best book yet written about the religious right. Church & State magazine called it "essential reading for anyone who cares about freedom."  

He co-authored Challenging the Christian Right: The Activist’s Handbook for which he and his co-author were named among the "Media Heroes of 1992" by the Institute for Alternative Journalism. They were described as "especially brave at taking on powerful institutions and persistent about getting stories out -- journalists and activists who persevere in fighting censorship and protecting the First Amendment, and "understanding the Christian Right's recent strategy of stealth politics early on, and or doggedly tracking its activities across the U.S."

He has written many groundbreaking exposes. He was the first to report that elements of the Christian Right were encouraging the formation of citizen militias – five years before the Oklahoma City bombing propelled the militia movement into the news. His 1991 undercover investigation of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition was the first to expose and detail the group's plans to take over the Republican Party. He was the first to report the alliance between Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon in advance of the Million Family March on Washington, DC in October 2000.