Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

As I mentioned, some of the update will come from material I have blogged about.  But also some thing require some further work. One I am particularly excited about developing further is my chapter on rethinking the strategy in response to the religious right.In it, I explain what I consider to be the four core elements of the strategy of the religious right; and five key elements of what a successful counter strategy should look like.
There are still three main things you can do to help (Click, here, scroll down.) Buy an advance copy of the updated book; buy a copy of the current edition; make a donation. (Updated ways of making online donations coming soon!)

One thing that has come up -- very tentatively -- is a speaking tour and doing some organizing in Ohio, perhaps during August. As you probably know, Ohio is a hotbed of the new generation of religious right organizing, led by Rev. Rod Parsley and the Ohio Restoration Project, and thier candidate for governor, Ken Blackwell. If you are interested in this possibility, please contact me at writertypes at gmail dot com

In addition to Ohio, I have pretty definite events planned for Oklhoma in September and St. Louis in November. If you know of anyone that might like to host and event or events while I am in the neighborhood, or can be involved in some other way, please let me know.

As you may know, I have a long track record of media appearances over many years.   For example, my next gig will be as a guest on Air America's Mike Malloy show (Laura Flanders, guest hosting) on Tuesday, June 27th.   (I like radio. It is like having an animated, intimate political conversation, often on the telephone, but with a lot of people listening in.)

In practical terms what this means is that I will be on the road, and in the media for much of the fall in the run up to the elections and beyond, with a revised and updated book (or not revised and updated), to sell, and a message that you may agree should be more widely heard and discussed. I can give people useful  information and analytical frameworks, and inspiration and encouragement for poltical and electoral involvement in response to the religious right. I emphasize for example, such things as the danger of Christian nationalism, why it is necessary to counter it -- and how to do it.  These are things that you are unlikely to hear from the many fine folks who emphasize spiritual progressivity as an alternative to the religious right -- but are not very far along in developing more organized political and electoral responses.