David Mislin
@davidmislin.bsky.social
Historian of 19th 20th + 21st c. US religion. Temple U. faculty. Wrote about Protestants + pluralism. Now writing on religious liberals in small towns. Once and (hopefully) future marathoner. Tired political junkie. Sheetz/Wawa equal opportunist. He/him.
For me the jury is still out. But I’ve noticed this with students for awhile now and it will change how we teach. For instance, starting around 2020, more and more students began insisting that Maria Monk was telling the truth and that efforts to disprove her book were a conspiracy to silence her.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For me the jury is still out. But I’ve noticed this with students for awhile now and it will change how we teach. For instance, starting around 2020, more and more students began insisting that Maria Monk was telling the truth and that efforts to disprove her book were a conspiracy to silence her.
Outstanding essay, which I’ve already shared widely. And it did inspire me to poke my head back in over here in a very minimal, time-restricted way.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Outstanding essay, which I’ve already shared widely. And it did inspire me to poke my head back in over here in a very minimal, time-restricted way.
I totally agree w/ you both about the high quality of season 3. Your comments got me thinking that maybe this is the show we would've gotten from the start if Tommy Thompson had stayed showrunner? S3 writing/pacing + more S1 cast would have been fantastic (not that Scheider would have gone for it).
October 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I totally agree w/ you both about the high quality of season 3. Your comments got me thinking that maybe this is the show we would've gotten from the start if Tommy Thompson had stayed showrunner? S3 writing/pacing + more S1 cast would have been fantastic (not that Scheider would have gone for it).
This looks great. Thanks!
October 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This looks great. Thanks!
This all brought back memories of a dinner I sat through with a bunch of very liberal New Englanders who found Kay Hagan's Sunday School teacher ad offensive. They truly believed that a Democrat shouldn't talk about religion, even if said Democrat was, by all accounts, genuinely religious.
July 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This all brought back memories of a dinner I sat through with a bunch of very liberal New Englanders who found Kay Hagan's Sunday School teacher ad offensive. They truly believed that a Democrat shouldn't talk about religion, even if said Democrat was, by all accounts, genuinely religious.
To your original point, I'm regularly amazed by the number of smart people I know who are significantly to the left of me politically and imagine themselves to be quite independent in their thought, but who constantly invoke the NYT as gospel.
July 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
To your original point, I'm regularly amazed by the number of smart people I know who are significantly to the left of me politically and imagine themselves to be quite independent in their thought, but who constantly invoke the NYT as gospel.