Theocracy: The Horror

"...the non-Christians? It is only logical that the new theocracy will marginalize them and eventually eliminate them. That's how..."

June 19, 2006 Postmarks

U.S. Founded in Opposition to Theocracy, Not to Become One

"...and died, or any number of laws that a theocracy might demand. All well and good if your particular..."

Nov. 4, 2004 Postmarks

Would Love to Live in a Totalitarian Theocracy

Oct. 20, 2005 Postmarks

Hail Satan?

The Satanic Temple’s idiosyncratic quest to remind America about freedom of religion

"...Opposition to the notion of theocracy is not merely inherent in American politics: It was..."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tell It Like It Is

Cyril Neville holds nothing back

"...Dyson's Come Hell or High Water, Kevin Phillips' American Theocracy, James Risen's State of War, Si Kahn and Elizabeth..."

April 28, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

False Accusations

"...Jim Walker Your Theocracy or Mine? Re: Theocracy is repression..."

March 21, 1997 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...by Islamist zealots who will impose worldwide, despotic Islamist theocracy if allowed. One would think that a neo-leftist like..."

June 9, 2006 Column

If We Allow Open Expression, Freedom Will Be Close to Extinction

"...by Islamist zealots who will impose worldwide despotic Islamist theocracy if allowed. One would think that a neo-leftist like..."

June 6, 2006 Postmarks

Page Two

The current movement to restore public school prayer is an act of pure political nostalgia, a step backward toward our own theocracy.

"...our time. At its most basic, fundamentalists want a theocracy. Prayer in the schools is a step backward, toward..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Kingdom Come

"...But though America rejected theocracy (government based on religious belief) two centuries ago, the..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Shayda

An Iranian mother and daughter find refuge from family violence in a Melbourne women’s shelter

"...without her mother, from becoming a woman in a theocracy that loathes women...."

March 22, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Circumstance

This Iranian film about two girls who begin a secret relationship is as much a political statement as it is a love story.

"...sheer effort it takes to be feminine in a theocracy, and the risks thereof – is at the heart..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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June 23, 2006 Column

Iranian Revolution Touches Austin

Woman, life, freedom

"...possibly standing at the precipice of stepping into a theocracy. And here we see a very failed 43-year-long, painful,..."

Dec. 16, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Holy Spider

True crime drama is an indictment of theocracy and misogyny

Nov. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lege's Assault on LGBTQIA Texans Fails

Wins for trans youth highlight resistance to theocracy

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Deep Divisions in Texas' Powerful Anti-Choice Movement

Battle reflects Lege’s growing extremism

"...Gov. Dan Patrick's Senate – akin to a radical theocracy. The media-shy yet powerful Wilkses ascribe to the idea..."

April 6, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

It's Magic

"...as worse. However, in this country, unlike in a theocracy, the default position is that you do not outlaw..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Postmarks

Activists Nod to The Handmaid's Tale to Protest Anti-Abortion Bills

Pro-choice protest at Capitol channels dystopian fiction

"...of their rights, including abortion care, in a Christian theocracy. (The 1985 book has seen new life as a..."

May 23, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Texas Hammer: Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights

It's a war on women's health

"...if you want to run the country like a theocracy, expect a legion of fighters at the gates...."

March 17, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

#AustinRecallAll

"...Abbott (Progressive Austinites Sick and Tired of the GOP Theocracy)..."

April 1, 2016 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Texas Republicans, Defiant as Always

Why the GOP isn't listening to you: They don't have to

"...Unfortunately for their efforts to install theocracy by the back door, most county clerks have ignored..."

July 5, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

''Tis Pity She's a Whore'

Not everything in 7 Towers' staging of this revenge tragedy works, but the production has heart

"...behind the tireless actors as a testament to what theocracy in a ruined world might look like, and haphazard..."

July 6, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

A Fun Word Game for the Whole Family!

"...(see Soviet and Chinese Communism, Nazism, and radical Islamist theocracy). Unchecked rightist moral and intellectual 'I know the truth'..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Postmarks

I Know and Speak the Objective Truth

"...(see Soviet and Chinese Communism, Nazism, and radical Islamist theocracy). Unchecked leftist moral and intellectual relativism destroys individual freedom,..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Postmarks

'Tail Wagging the Dog'

"...is a Nazi state. It is, after all, a theocracy where citizenship requires being Jewish. Do other countries have..."

June 8, 2010 Postmarks

Sarcasm About Going Galt

"...homophobia, corporate bootlicking, or the foundation of a Taliban-like theocracy, all of which are fundamental ideals of the tea-baggers...."

Feb. 22, 2010 Postmarks

Paul Not a Fierce Defender of Liberty

"...of the imagination. It is a call for localized theocracy. Anyone who lives in Texas and is not a..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Postmarks

A Taxing Discussion

YCT threatens to disrupt health care forum

"...letting America plummet down into the intolerable depths of theocracy...."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Great Escapes

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 3: Films of the Middle East & North Africa

"...when they give in to the temptations of fanatical theocracy. Only a girl at the time of Pakistan's establishment..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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