Rendezvous with the Wizard

Posted on April 16, 2025 by PLT Staff

Rendezvous with the Wizard

Charles Marsh’s essay, “Rendezvous with the Wizard”, published in the Oxford American, is available here in digital format.

Yes, it’s fairly harrowing to realize that the “worldview” of the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi and self-proclaimed Christian terrorist is no longer an idiosyncratic position forged in the crucible of the anti–civil rights movement by segregationists clinging to authority they’d quickly lose. Rather, Sam Bowers’ theories sound like talking points for a generation of Christian nationalists who hold political office, run think tanks, publish sleek journals and newspapers, and permeate social media.

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