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Audrey Clare Farley

Audrey Clare Farley earned a PhD in English literature from University of Maryland, College Park, and now teaches history and creative writing. She is the author of The Unfit Heiress and Girls and Their Monsters. Follow her on Twitter @AudreyCFarley.

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April 3, 2024
Audrey Clare Farley
Right-Wing Influencers Are Fighting Over What It Means to Be White
Candace Owens’s bitter split with Ben Shapiro, and the rise of “Christ is king” as an antisemitic troll, reveal just how weird things have gotten among very-online conservatives.
November 8, 2023
Audrey Clare Farley
Mike Johnson Is Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Christian Zionist
The House speaker has an apocalyptic fervor for Israel—but it’s not what it seems.
May 4, 2023
Audrey Clare Farley
The Far Right’s Dangerous Fertility Myths
Conservatives such as Candace Owens pitch “trad life” as the only safe harbor for women who fear abusive men. The truth is anything but.
January 30, 2023
Audrey Clare Farley
Ron DeSantis and His Christian Crusaders Are Stealing Trump’s Religious Thunder
As the former president loses his edge with evangelicals, the man who might replace him is cashing in on the resurgence of right-wing Catholicism.
December 13, 2022
Audrey Clare Farley
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is More Conspiracy-Addled Than Ever
From rampant antisemitism to groomer panic, pro-life activists are knee-deep in the far-right fever swamp.
May 30, 2022
Audrey Clare Farley
The Racist Roots of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sex Scandal “Apocalypse”
America’s preeminent Protestant denomination is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning that’s being avoided.
January 3, 2022
Audrey Clare Farley
The Life Coaches Fueling the “Ex-Evangelical” Movement
A burgeoning new field of spiritual counseling promises to cleanse the faithful of far-right religious ideas. But is this just swapping one kind of snake oil with another?
August 25, 2021
Audrey Clare Farley
How Western Books About the Muslim World Fuel War and Retribution
Nonfiction narratives that purport to explain life in Islam’s far-flung capitals paper over the brutal hand of U.S. foreign policy.
May 25, 2021
Audrey Clare Farley
The Exorcists Who Are Battling Black Lives Matter
Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs.
March 16, 2021
Audrey Clare Farley
The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community
Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.
December 21, 2020
Audrey Clare Farley
The Conservative War Against the Black Church
As the Georgia runoffs descend into attacks on the Reverend Raphael Warnock’s faith, the right’s long-simmering antipathy for Black theological traditions is swinging into view.
July 9, 2020
Audrey Clare Farley
When Cops Kill White People, Black Lives Still Matter
The roots of modern policing are steeped in a white supremacy from which none are immune.
May 14, 2020
Audrey Clare Farley
The Nonprofit Grifters Who Want a Cut of the Coronavirus Bailout
After years of undermining health policy to aid their Big Pharma patrons, patient advocacy groups are making claims to federal pandemic relief.
October 28, 2019
Audrey Clare Farley
The Toxic Nationalism of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Big Pharma has a long and checkered history deploying racist and xenophobic tropes to protect their profits.
May 10, 2019
Audrey Clare Farley
Big Pharma Is Pushing a Big Lie
People are dying because they can't afford necessary medications, but drug manufacturers say they need high prices to fund future breakthroughs.

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