Some Call it Treason; I Call it Saving My Soul

May 6, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

Brazilian archbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara once said, “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” During my younger years as an academic, before being radicalized by standing in solidarity…

Don’t Read this Essay. It is Overflowing With Banned Words

April 9, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

Ignorance is strength! In this Orwellian era of “alternative facts” and “fake news,” the current Oceania administration seeks to normalize and legitimize newspeak. It provides federal agencies with a list of undesirable words that need to be struck from our vocabulary, lest they lead to crimethink. Ideological…

Donald Trump Is A Sodomite Presiding Over a Nation of Sodomites

April 2, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

Donald Trump is a sodomite. So are Elon Musk and Stephen Miller. Together, they engage in this abomination before the eyes of the Lord. Are you also guilty of the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? Are you sure? Our nation has become a country of…

Because of Bananas: Manifest Destiny for the 21st-Century

March 18, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

I was an undocumented immigrant in the country responsible for my expatriation. While living in a rat-and-roach-infested one-room apartment in the slums of Manhattan, my family and I received individual letters from the U.S. government. Dated June 21, 1960, the letters informed us that we…

Indigenous Wine: Dislodging Eurocentric Models That Lead to ‘Latinos for Trump’

March 5, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

The guardians of white privilege normalize and legitimize a way of thinking and being that enslaves minds while allegedly freeing bodies. If the mind can be colonized, then those who society is constructed to benefit don’t need to worry about resistance to oppression. All too…

Confessions of a Christian Zionist

February 12, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

Last month, I attended an international conference in Jordan, next to the site where Jesús was supposedly baptized by Juan el Baptista. The title of my presentation was “Confessions of a Former Christian Zionist.” I argued Christian Zionism is a manifestation of European white supremacy,…

My Pronouns

February 5, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

All my life I have been referred to as “he, him, and his.” Such a designation is apropos being that I identify as a heterosexual male. My gender and orientation as provided me with a privilege where thinking about my identity and what to call…

Jimmy Carter: Guardian of Empire

January 14, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

On December 2, I stood in the small chapel on the grounds of San Salvador’s Hospital Divina Providencia, whose mission is to provide palliative care. Almost forty-five years earlier, on March 24, 1980, the archbishop of El Salvador, Oscar Romero, living on the hospital’s property…

Butterfly Effect: The Politics of Chaos Didn’t Begin With Donald Trump

January 7, 2025 by Miguel De La Torre

Mass deportation. Prosecute rivals. Abolish FDIC. Cabinet choices. Partisan federal employees. Eliminate debt ceiling. Abolish birthright citizenship. Retake Panama Canal. Abandon Ukraine. Annex Canada. Criminalize wokeness. Abolish Palestine. Enact Article V of the Consitution. Dismantle NATO. Tariff wars. Fascist authoritarian tendencies. Pardon insurrectionists. Abolish the…

Bonhoeffer’s Ethics and Luis Mangione: Is Murder Ever Justified?

December 16, 2024 by Miguel De La Torre

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pacifist, wrestled with an ethical dilemma. Is it moral to kill someone responsible for mass murder? He was thinking of Hitler and whether he should participate in the plot to assassinate him, which would have been an act of tyrannicide. While contemplating…