Racism is Nothing New for the Religious Right

The Religious Right is experiencing another, devastating Covid surge, especially in Southern states with Republican governors. Meanwhile, conservative state legislators are furiously passing laws against voting rights and the teaching of critical race theory, the new conservative Christian bogeyman. What appears to be a recent political focus on one theory of systemic racism actually echoes a long racist history to protect segregated Religious Right schools described in Randall Balmer's concise, coherent, and compelling new book, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right.