John Hawthorne
@jwhawthorne.bsky.social
Retired Christian University Sociology Professor/Administrator living in the Denver area. Check out my new book, The Fearless Christian University https://tinyurl.com/3n6ea349. Follow my substack at https://johnhawthorne.substack.com/
If you or someone you know is heading to Boston for #aarsbl2025 this weekend, my book will be available at the Eerdmans display with a discount. Help spread the word!
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If you or someone you know is heading to Boston for #aarsbl2025 this weekend, my book will be available at the Eerdmans display with a discount. Help spread the word!
This administration’s weird use of undefined aggregate statistics is just bizarre. Based on how many people? Half a pound for each adult in the US? A million people losing an average of 35 pounds?
Why not talk about the median weight loss (your experience may vary)?
Take a stats class!
Why not talk about the median weight loss (your experience may vary)?
Take a stats class!
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This administration’s weird use of undefined aggregate statistics is just bizarre. Based on how many people? Half a pound for each adult in the US? A million people losing an average of 35 pounds?
Why not talk about the median weight loss (your experience may vary)?
Take a stats class!
Why not talk about the median weight loss (your experience may vary)?
Take a stats class!
Gavin should have given his speech before Mamdani’s. Not a great speech and failed to thank the people worked hard to achieve the outcome. Zohran showed how to close a campaign.
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Gavin should have given his speech before Mamdani’s. Not a great speech and failed to thank the people worked hard to achieve the outcome. Zohran showed how to close a campaign.
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In the wake of searing media stories and big blowback from alums (some of whom threatened to pull planned endowments), Indiana University reversed its decision to stop letting their students print news.
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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IDS to continue printing after IU reverses course
Our next edition will hit the stands Nov. 20.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In the wake of searing media stories and big blowback from alums (some of whom threatened to pull planned endowments), Indiana University reversed its decision to stop letting their students print news.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
Heading to Minneapolis for the @sssreligion.bsky.social meeting (which will include a book panel about The Fearless Christian University).
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Heading to Minneapolis for the @sssreligion.bsky.social meeting (which will include a book panel about The Fearless Christian University).
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OK, I wrote about the "how Democrats can win" report. www.pbump.net/o/politics-i...
Politics is more than temperature-taking
Political campaigns, the axiom has it, are nothing more than a math problem. Get 50 percent of the vote, plus one, and you win. Doesn't matter the race; that holds. So all a candidate needs to do, how...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
OK, I wrote about the "how Democrats can win" report. www.pbump.net/o/politics-i...
Beth Allison Barr's "Becoming the Pastor's Wife"
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Beth Allison Barr's "Becoming the Pastor's Wife"
Social Construction and Social Sanctions
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October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Beth Allison Barr's "Becoming the Pastor's Wife"
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Christianity and Americanism: Pew and PRRI open.substack.com/pub/johnhawt...
I don’t think these positions could be well articulated in a focus group. But they operate in the ether through which people approach religion and patriotism. That’s why I call it Soft Christian Nationalism.
I don’t think these positions could be well articulated in a focus group. But they operate in the ether through which people approach religion and patriotism. That’s why I call it Soft Christian Nationalism.
Christianity and Americanism: Pew and PRRI
A look at "soft Christian Nationalism"
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October 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Christianity and Americanism: Pew and PRRI open.substack.com/pub/johnhawt...
I don’t think these positions could be well articulated in a focus group. But they operate in the ether through which people approach religion and patriotism. That’s why I call it Soft Christian Nationalism.
I don’t think these positions could be well articulated in a focus group. But they operate in the ether through which people approach religion and patriotism. That’s why I call it Soft Christian Nationalism.
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Yeah, this is one case where I think we'd all be wise to spread the president's message wide. Let everyone see who he is.
Trump’s “message”: I am a king and I douse you all in shit.
I say go ahead and amplify it.
I say go ahead and amplify it.
October 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Yeah, this is one case where I think we'd all be wise to spread the president's message wide. Let everyone see who he is.
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“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes.
But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/
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But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
October 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes.
But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
With A Little Help From My Friends
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With A Little Help From My Friends
Some great SubStacks you should read
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October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
With A Little Help From My Friends
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EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
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The Goal is Delegitimization
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Thanks to @eggerdc.bsky.social @jenrubin.bsky.social and @sykescharlie.bsky.social
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Thanks to @eggerdc.bsky.social @jenrubin.bsky.social and @sykescharlie.bsky.social
The Goal is Delegitimization
"Who are you to stop us?"
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October 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Goal is Delegitimization
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Thanks to @eggerdc.bsky.social @jenrubin.bsky.social and @sykescharlie.bsky.social
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Thanks to @eggerdc.bsky.social @jenrubin.bsky.social and @sykescharlie.bsky.social
Pollingism vs. Magnetism
Reflections on @anatosaurus.bsky.social's analysis on polls and political campaigns.
Reflections on @anatosaurus.bsky.social's analysis on polls and political campaigns.
Pollingism vs. Magnetism
Anat Shenker-Osorio and Democratic Messaging
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October 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Pollingism vs. Magnetism
Reflections on @anatosaurus.bsky.social's analysis on polls and political campaigns.
Reflections on @anatosaurus.bsky.social's analysis on polls and political campaigns.
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Oh wow! Donnie learned a new vocabulary word—"unabated"!!
Too bad he doesn't know what it means.
Too bad he doesn't know what it means.
October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Oh wow! Donnie learned a new vocabulary word—"unabated"!!
Too bad he doesn't know what it means.
Too bad he doesn't know what it means.
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New at Tusk: On the obsession with gaffes that are believed to end campaigns but actually don't
Again with the deplorables
Gaffes matter! For some candidates! Sometimes! This isn't much of a theory!
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October 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New at Tusk: On the obsession with gaffes that are believed to end campaigns but actually don't
Definitely worth reading. I’m digging in on my SubStack on Monday.
Not at all being absurd fan girl that @jamellebouie.net said he's reading my "Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight" piece in his NYT column. (By which I mean, gahh!! and thank you.)
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Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
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October 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Definitely worth reading. I’m digging in on my SubStack on Monday.
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Hey JD Vance.👋 You need to understand something. Physicians are never going to refuse emergency care to someone in an Emergency Department. No matter what you say behind that big boy podium.
We’re not like you.
We wake up every day to help people.
We’re not like you.
We wake up every day to help people.
October 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hey JD Vance.👋 You need to understand something. Physicians are never going to refuse emergency care to someone in an Emergency Department. No matter what you say behind that big boy podium.
We’re not like you.
We wake up every day to help people.
We’re not like you.
We wake up every day to help people.
Phil Christman's "Why Christians Should Be Leftists". open.substack.com/pub/johnhawt...
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Phil Christman's "Why Christians Should Be Leftists"
What if Jesus was serious about the Sermon on the Mount?
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September 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Phil Christman's "Why Christians Should Be Leftists". open.substack.com/pub/johnhawt...
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Portlandia
Team Trump is more brownshirts than Brownstein, more armed men than Armisen. Donald's rationale for invading Portland is sketchy to say the least, but maybe he can install RFK, Jr. as president of the Portland Raw Milk Advisory Board.
by Maureen Dowd
Team Trump is more brownshirts than Brownstein, more armed men than Armisen. Donald's rationale for invading Portland is sketchy to say the least, but maybe he can install RFK, Jr. as president of the Portland Raw Milk Advisory Board.
by Maureen Dowd
September 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Portlandia
Team Trump is more brownshirts than Brownstein, more armed men than Armisen. Donald's rationale for invading Portland is sketchy to say the least, but maybe he can install RFK, Jr. as president of the Portland Raw Milk Advisory Board.
by Maureen Dowd
Team Trump is more brownshirts than Brownstein, more armed men than Armisen. Donald's rationale for invading Portland is sketchy to say the least, but maybe he can install RFK, Jr. as president of the Portland Raw Milk Advisory Board.
by Maureen Dowd
September 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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At the UN today Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.’
Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.
Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.
September 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
At the UN today Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.’
Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.
Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.