Michael Phillips is a scholar of American racism, right-wing extremism, and apocalyptic religious beliefs. His first book, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001, won the 2007 Texas Historical Commission’s prize for best book on Texas history. Last year, he co-authored with longtime journalist Betsy Friauf The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics. Along with investigative journalist Steven Monacelli, last November he co-hosted a three-part series, The Shady Business of Lethal Injection, for the podcast It Could Happen Here. You can read his thoughts on politics, the world and life in Texas at drmphillips2001.substack.com.
