The American Antichrist is not a person. It is a pattern — and this book attempts to show that the current Christian nationalist movement does not merely distort Christianity. It instantiates the precise structural inversion of what Christ actually taught, diagnosed by three independent frameworks that were never designed to agree with one another and converge on the same conclusion anyway: Augustine's patristic account of pride as the refusal of creaturely limitation, the clinical psychol...

A president's family grows richer by the billions while in office. A vice president was installed by a single donor's fifteen million dollars. A Supreme Court justice wrote the legal argument for unlimited corporate political spending seven years after a confidential memo he authored called the judiciary business's “most important instrument” for change — then joined the Court that made his own plan law.These are not isolated stories. They are a pattern, and the pattern has a name:...