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.”
A review of “Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America,” by Will Sommer.
“If you want to run a prosecutor’s office that’s really going to keep people safe, you need to be proactive and you need to be out there in the community,” said Khan.
Partisan politics takes a back seat as a community unites to protect its home from a solid waste recycling center.
Democratic candidate for sheriff Danny Ceisler said if elected he vows to “end this deportation partnership once and for all.”
“Donald Trump and his enablers have hurt working Americans, terrorized our immigrant communities, and overreached their constitutional authority,” said Indivisible Bucks County’s Laura Rose. “We must all stand up to this betrayal of American values and ensure the rights of all are upheld.”
Lawyers in both cases say the DOJ is weaponizing the government and its resources against a group of people it opposes politically.
