Archive for November 2025

At the core of Campaign University is the idea that there is no separation between what happens within the church and what happens in the government. Students are taught to interpret the First Amendment’s establishment clause on the separation of church and state as a protection against government involvement in religion, rather than vice versa. Previously, churches risked losing their tax-exempt status by discussing or engaging in politics. Then this summer, the Internal Revenue Service decided to allow religious leaders to endorse political candidates from the pulpit, a decision Schatzline took as a green light for him and other pastors to ramp up political activity.

In a 2023 meta-analysis of electronic performance monitoring, psychologist Daniel Ravid and his colleagues found that watching workers tends to have the opposite of its intended effect. It ultimately fails to achieve its core aim—actually improving performance. The more intense the monitoring, the more performance declines. The findings, published in Personnel Psychology, also linked surveillance to higher rates of burnout and turnover. Another report—the 2023 IPC study—found that monitored employees report significantly higher stress, heavier workloads, poorer relationships with supervisors, and greater career uncertainty than their non-monitored peers.