Jan. 15, 2026
Theodore R. Johnson's Washington Post Column on the Fragility of U.S. Citizenship
Theodore R. Johnson's Washington Post column of January 14, 2026, discusses the "fragility" of U.S. citizenship in which he describes the injustice and danger of allowing the United States Government to decide capriciously who does and does not belong. Johnson writes: "Citizenship is increasingly treated as conditional rather than absolute, a credential more than an obligation. In practice, its legal meaning and the rights it confers have been eclipsed by partisan judgments about who belongs." If you have access to The Washington Post's content, you can read the column here.
We discuss these issues in our "America First" series, particularly in Episode 102 and in our wrap-up of the series toward the end of Episode 106.
Tea, Drugs, and Jesus: Books and Sources
MARSHALL's SOURCES:
Hyatt, Irwin. Our Ordered Lives Confess: Three Nineteenth-Century American Missionaries in East Shantung. 2014.
A spirited case study of American missionaries operating in Northeast China and the challenges they faced. Ess…
Upcoming Episodes!
Episode 203 (coming January 21!): As the Manchu dynasty weakens during the 19th century, U.S. missionaries arrive. Christian evangelization leads to the outbreak of the long, bloody, brutal, and genocidal Taiping Rebellion, whose leader claims to be…
