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Samuel Perry

@profsamperry.bsky.social
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Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 5h
You know that deep muscle soreness you've felt when you've really pushed yourself in the weightroom or went extra long on that morning run? Being consistently active in your mid-forties means feeling that way all the time. Soreness is the baseline for you now.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Black Americans who worship in multiracial congregations, especially those led by white clergy, show far higher rates of political disengagement than those in Black congregations, even when they share the same upbringing”
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How multiracial churches are depoliticizing Black Americans | Brookings
Ryon J. Cobb reveals how church leadership and racial makeup shape Black Americans' political engagement and power.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This thought crosses my mind when universities where I go lecture require me to log onto some system and register as a payee. Please, oh please just let me email someone a W9 that I signed 2 years ago and then mail me a check.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely. I'm very grateful for organizations, campaigns, and funding agencies seeking to reduce polarization. But if their plan doesn't recognize the plain facts that one side must renew its commitment to the democratic project, it's just playing games.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This strikes me as very likely and exactly right. Great piece as usual by Levitsky and Way.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nice write-up in @psypost.bsky.social of my recent study on “Cognitive Ability and Christian Nationalism” in @jssreligion.bsky.social. @sssreligion.bsky.social www.psypost.org/lower-cognit...
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Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education
A recent study indicates that Americans with lower cognitive ability scores tend to be more likely to embrace Christian nationalism. The findings suggest the ideology’s appeal is linked to underlying ...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed?
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Michael E. Heyes @thedemonologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Our department is, you might say putting on the full armor of God, because while we wage physical war, we all know the real battle is spiritual,” he said. “God is good, evil is not, and America’s military must understand the difference.”
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CRIS/Sciences Po (Paris) and IAB (Grenoble) are recruiting two postdoctoral *or* doctoral researchers to join a project on how pollution and other environmental exposures affect children’s development. Deadline Nov 13. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 01/10/2026
True psychopathy is rare! Basic math means that most war crimes and monstrosities are carried about people who are not psychopaths, which is why there is so much propaganda dehumanizing and othering the target group (have to blunt the empathic impulse)
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That’s so wild and sad. I remember that lady from Twitter. www.fox10phoenix.com/news/best-se...
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Best-selling Christian authors from North Texas arrested following investigation into child abuse
A North Texas couple, who are best-selling Christian authors, has been arrested following an investigation into alleged physical and sexual abuse of a child, according to the Keene Police Department.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Substitute "Oklahoma" for "Eric Schmitt" in that first sentence.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not so sure that's even our best one! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @profsamperry.bsky.social
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026
I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who is resisting Christian Nationalism? Check out this new report from @prri.org & @snfagora.bsky.social's Meanings and Democracy Lab. State legislatures & religious diversity shape CN resistance across all 50 states prri.org/research/res... @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social @robertpjones.bsky.social
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Resistance to Christian Nationalism in All 50 States: A PRRI-Meanings of Democracy Lab Report
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That would be entirely consistent with our finding some years ago that Google searches for male enhancement terms (e.g., "male enhancement pills" "penis enlargement") are strongly correlated with evangelical adherence rate in a state, even with numerous controls. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lol. I just read that over a decade ago in an effort to increase Russian birthrates, Vladimir Putin hired Boyz II Men to put on a concert in the hopes that their popular slow jams would put Russians in the mood.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology
The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"the more we dug into Rubin’s claims and data, the more we realized that the assessments should not be kept confidential. The claims were too extreme, the institutions behind it were too prominent, and...media attention to the...project and to sociology’s supposed 'politicization' was too immense"
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did you know pronatalist policies have been tried throughout history & they're almost always huge failures & huge wastes of government resources? Not that making childbearing & parenting more affordable isn't a laudable goal. But if the goal is increased fertility, pronatalist policies don't work.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a great book for anyone interested in a cross-national history of thinking & policy regarding population size and specifically birth rates. Scandalously awful pricing on this, sadly (over $60.00 on Amazon and $73.00 at OUP website). I got pdfs via my library. www.amazon.com/dp/019087184...
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Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power
Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power [Togman, Richard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Looking at this poster reminds me of the study by @brooklynwalker.bsky.social & @pauldjupe.bsky.social showing that it's the men who are trying to compensate for feeling unmasculine who are more Christian nationalist, sexist, extremist, & pro-violence. Study here: academic.oup.com/socrel/artic...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
amazing -- Karl Rove lists Paxton's scandals: "The corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?"
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From the football swag I see around town on a weekly basis, it feels like half the adults on Manhattan's upper east side went to Michigan.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Kenneth Ethan Frantz @kennethefrantz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great fact checking from @roysreport.bsky.social! Mark Driscoll is a liar and narcissist. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LnB7...
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Mark Driscoll rewrites Mars Hill history on the Jeremy Boreing Show
YouTube video by Roys Report
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Someone told me a long time ago that publishing is like long-distance impression management. You're not just doing due dilligence. You're *showing* that you did due dilligence by nailing the details of clarity & presentation. Giving reviewers the impression "Ok, this person is a pro" at the outset.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Students and colleagues, the aesthetics of the tables in your manuscript matter. If they look cut and paste, bunched up, weirdly organized, or otherwise thrown in there it gives the impression of a rush job or someone who doesn't know what they're doing. Doesn't have to be LaTeX to look nice.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The evangelical leaders and writers who first dismissed our Christian nationalism research as "just another leftist slur targeting Christians in politics" currently spend their days online warning about the dangers of Christian nationalism while being dogpiled by Christian nationalists on Twitter.
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Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been working on this for a while about pastors who see the racism and antisemitism of America's past as a feature, not a bug. Meet the Jim Crow Theobros religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I actually appreciated Erickson's (Claude-sourced) article in that it connected many of the dots in a few hundred words with links. Haywood is into all the Christian far-right stuff. Can't argue that he's fringe if he's on the boards and/or funding all these White CNist organizations.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Even Shenvi stresses how central-yet-horrible Charles Haywood is to the current Christian right. www.christianpost.com/voices/charl...
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Charles Haywood and how 'no enemies to the right' shields the woke right
When Erick Erickson exposed Charles Haywood s patronage network, prominent conservatives accused him of inciting violence Their overwrought reactions were telling They made it hard to argue that
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this is twelve kinds of sad
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Various names, but Natalism Conference. Held in 2023 and 2025 in Austin, TX. Look at the speakers and it's quite the lineup of white nationalists, MAGA operatives, Twitter personalities with fake names, traditional conservatives, and a libertarian or progressive token here and there.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You don't get to call "nut-picking" when the nuts are headlining and funding your flagship conferences. Those nuts are your leaders.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an important article because it highlight's the deep connections Haywood and people in his circles have to Christian nationalist influencers prominent among the GOP and evangelical circles. It's not "nut-picking" to say Haywood and folks like him are central to American pronatalism.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Erickson is a conservative Christian author denouncing Charles Haywood, who is a rich fascist who funds fascist stuff. One thing Erickson leaves out is Haywood's also a leader in pronatalist circles. Spoke at the 2023 NatalCon & sponsored the 2025 conference. ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-midwes...
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charles-haywood-claremont-american-reformer-fuentes
Charles Haywood's money sits inside the Claremont Institute, American Reformer, and the Southern Baptist fight. Nick Fuentes is working the same end from outside.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"At least once a month, reporting on fertility, I ask for an academic source and am instead directed to Waters, author of a biblical women’s leadership book that basically says the best thing about the Barbie movie was the patriarchy." Expertise is no match for a loud voice & a big microphone. 😭😭😭
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She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 21/09/2026
I was once at a summit/think-tank sort of thing with a bunch of philosophers discussing social trust (only psychologist there) and I listened to them discussing how people make decisions about what they believe and I remember asking “do you think this is actually how people make decisions?”
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Free speech includes free press. PERIOD. We stand with every single reporter who refuses to let this Administration decide what gets covered, what gets ignored, and what the American people get to see. The American people deserve the truth, and our reporters have the right to tell it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New study @nature.com establishes predictors of White nationalism in the US. Among the predictors are higher worship attendance & belief that non-White and non-Christian groups have too much power, along with being low-SES, conservative, GOP, & politically disaffected. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States - Nature
Explicit support for white nationalism is uncommon overall, but higher among young white men, disadvantaged and politically disaffected white people, conservatives, Republicans, and those with primari...
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