In the closing months of a presidential election, this book is a valuable tool for understanding what drives too much of our contemporary politics.
A review of Arthur Goldwag’s “The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia.”
A review of Sarah Kendzior’s “They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent.”
Colin Dickey’s new book “Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy” reveals how throughout history conspiracies have allowed us to sidestep a reckoning with reality.
Kutztown University Professor Michael Gambone reviews this beautifully written, insightful, and poignant examination of our broken, and at times absurd, modern moment.
A review of “QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories,” edited by Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock.
A review of Kyle Spencer’s “Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power.”
Today’s internet landscape resembles a conspiracy Venn Diagram with overlapping spheres of QAnon, anti-vax, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi ideology all occupying and competing for the same ground. Flat Earthers live in this environment and are sustained by it.
A review of Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.”
They also called for worker unity and a coordinated effort among various unions to push Vice President Kamala Harris over the finish line in November.
Indoctrination, privatization, and discrimination are just some of the educational goals of a second Trump term.
Bucks County government has filed a civil complaint following an injunction by Plumstead Township alleging violations of the property’s conservation easement.
Spreading fracking wastewater is banned. Oil and gas companies do it anyway.
This far-right, Christian nationalist policy agenda for a second Trump term wants to eradicate public education.
