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…