If you'd like to support this work through a channel membership, here's the link! https://www.youtube.com/@culturefaithandpolitics/join Order "Nuremberg, Mississippi" here: https://a.co/d/0c0dcpvs Melvin's interview with Pamela Hamphill: https://youtu.be/cXqib-s_mss My books are available on Amazon: "A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny "MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ America can't plead ignorance — not when the evidence has always been right in front of us. Award-winning author Melvin E. Edwards joins Pat Kahnke to investigate how a nation chooses not to know, and what that moral choice actually costs. Edwards' debut novel Nuremberg, Mississippi asks the question that Nuremberg prosecutors put to Nazi officials: when what you're doing is legal — but legal is causing the deaths of people — did you ever think about just not doing that? From Jim Crow sundown towns to the patterns playing out today in the age of MAGA and Christian nationalism, this conversation draws a straight line from 1965 Mississippi to modern America. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil," Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "theory of stupidity," and MLK's devastating critique of the white moderate in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Edwards documents how legal systems enforce atrocities without ever raising a voice — and how ordinary people learn to call their silence innocence.In this conversation: The Nuremberg standard: what "crimes against humanity" means — and whether Jim Crow qualifies Sundown towns: how explicit racial terror evolved into bureaucratic enforcement Arendt and Bonhoeffer on complicity — and why they explain more about America than we admit MLK's white moderate: still the problem, still looking away When legal is not moral — and what people of conscience are called to do How intentional ignorance became America's oldest and most dangerous defense In an era when MAGA Christianity provides theological permission for policies built on willful blindness — from Trump's political rise to the systematic erosion of accountability — Edwards' framework is not merely historical. It is urgently present. Melvin E. Edwards is also the author of The Eyes of Texans: From Slavery to the Texas Capital and The Strength of a Thousand Sons.