Tag Archives: Rufo

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Romancing the Apocalypse

Christopher Rufo’s Self-Righteous Crusade to Destroy America

Peter McLaren

Rejecting a world of communal solidarity and love that values affirmation, respect and reciprocal relations among diverse groups of human beings is irredeemably antagonistic to the purported values we associate with American citizenship. Yet such a rejection seems today to be in lockstep with the privatising and utilitarian logic of exchange value – in other […]

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McLaren, P. (2024). Romancing the Apocalypse: Christopher Rufo’s Self-Righteous Crusade to Destroy America. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/romancing-the-apocalypse/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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A Problem of the Personal

A Response to Peter McLaren on Rufo’s Hermeneutics of Evil

Lanney Mayer

The Great Chain of Being (Didacus Valade, 1579) Here Lanney Mayer responds to Peter McLaren’s columns engaging with Christopher Rufo. Lanney is currently writing a book on the Enlightenment and education called Recovering a Human(e) Education: A Trans-Modern Perspective. Addressing Rufo, I see two related problems with the ongoing unsuccessful dialogue with the right in […]

Lanney Mayer

Lanney Mayer (retired) has been Associate Professor of Education at the University of La Verne’s La Fetra College of Education and Regional Director for Teacher Education at College of the Canyons Regional Center in Santa Clarita. Trained as a theologian at Trinity Seminary and Claremont Graduate School and in Educational Leadership and Critical Pedagogy at UCLA, his work as a teacher and administrator with incarcerated students in the Los Angeles County Office of Education’s Court and Community Schools informed his research linking human(e) values and education for social justice. His research interests include values and spirituality in education, critical pedagogy, education for social justice, and trans-modern humanity. He has published articles addressing student culture as educational outcome, integrating faith and learning, alternative education informing traditional education, recovering full humanity in teaching and learning, and decolonizing the Cartesian educational hegemony.

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The Eschaton is Now: José Porfirio Miranda Against the Catholic Right’s Anti-Woke Christianity

A Response to Christopher Rufo and his Prating Pontificators

Peter McLaren

Introduction The work of Jesuit theologian José Porfirio Miranda poses a provocative question: What if, in the dominant Western narrative, it was Christianity that ignited the oxidising flame of communism? Picture a timeline from the first century to the nineteenth, where resilient groups of Christians, despite facing opposition from established powers and the church, passionately […]

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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Catholic Integralism, Pervasive Putinism and the Assault on Democracy

Peter McLaren

The unholy marriage between postliberal theology and legal conservatism accounts for one reason that the animating spirit of today’s ‘integralism’ has been so resilient. Its exponents have shown Americans that they will not let something as insignificant as democracy stand in their way of transforming America, even if it means belabouring the political theology of the Middle Ages […]

Full Citation Information:
McLaren, P. (2022). Catholic Integralism, Pervasive Putinism and the Assault on Democracy. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/catholic-integralism-pervasive-putinism-and-the-assault-on-democracy/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.