News
Take a Dark Ride Into America’s Conspiracy Culture
A review of Sarah Kendzior’s “They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent.”
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
January 11, 2024
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
Opinion
Conspiracy Theories Are As American As Apple Pie
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.
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
December 11, 2023
Opinion
Take a Trip Into the ‘Mirror World’ with Naomi Klein’s New Book ‘Doppelganger’
Kutztown University Professor Michael Gambone reviews this beautifully written, insightful, and poignant examination of our broken, and at times absurd, modern moment.
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
October 27, 2023
Opinion
Understanding Why Christians Are Seduced by QAnon and Conspiracy Theories
A review of “QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories,” edited by Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock.
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
September 8, 2023
Opinion
How The Right Is Grooming Kids to Become Republican Voters
A review of Kyle Spencer’s “Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power.”
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
July 25, 2023
Opinion
Book Review: ‘Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything,’ by Kelly Weill
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.
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
June 29, 2023
News
To Understand Groups Like Moms for Liberty and the Republican Party’s MAGA Base, Look to the John Birch Society
A review of Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.”
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
June 1, 2023
Culture
New Book Examines How the QAnon Conspiracy Radicalized Its Followers and Unhinged America
A review of “Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America,” by Will Sommer.
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
April 19, 2023
Culture
New Book Busts Historical Myths and Misinformation About the United States
A review of “Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past,” edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer.
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
February 14, 2023
Pennsylvania Homeless Advocates Condemn Trump’s Plans to Punish the Unhoused, Involuntarily Commit Them
August 7, 2025
“Homelessness is caused by poverty,” said Estelle Richman, HUD Chief Operating Officer during the Obama administration. “These are poor people … Many of them are working. They just don’t have enough money to pay the rent.”
80 Years After the US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nuclear Threat Remains Grave
August 5, 2025
Nuclear war is a real and present danger that we must acknowledge and confront, writes Ira Helfand.
Rivot Magazine Provides Bucks County a Much-needed Print Music and News Publication With a Punk Rock Ethos
August 4, 2025
Founder James Lamb said print media was a void that needed to be filled. “I just really like a physical, handheld thing that can be saved, that can migrate when I drop one at the bus stop.”
DOJ’s Demand for State Voter Lists Are a Major Battleground in Fights Over Access to the Polls
August 4, 2025
The Trump administration wants to scoop up voter registration lists and other election data from all 50 states.
New Pennsylvania Project Opens Office in Bensalem, Its First in Bucks County
August 2, 2025
The nonpartisan voting rights organization wants everyone in the county to be registered, educated, engaged and active voters.
