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.
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.
One destructive legacy is that U.S. democracy is much weaker than it was before the insurrection attempt.
A reflection on local efforts that helped restore public faith in the democratic process right here in the Keystone State.
Long-term nursing care facilities could close – as have 30 other PA homes in the last five years – leaving elderly, ill or injured local patients in dire consequences.
In a crabby rant with a local right-wing podcast, Harran also accused Democratic Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie of hating him.
Despite the threat of legal action, the Bucks County Sheriff’s office moves forward with the 287(g) program that will allow local deputies to act as de facto ICE agents.
The Democratic congressman hopes his Republican colleague Brian Fitzpatrick will vote against a budget that looks to gut social programs like Medicaid and SNAP that millions of families rely on.
If ICE approves the 287(g) “task force model” application and the sheriff moves forward without the commissioners’ green light, legal action will be imminent and “Bucks County taxpayers will be on the hook.”
