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
Could Pennsylvania’s Budget Impasse End Up in Court?
August 28, 2025
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
OPINION: Trump’s Troop Deployments in Cities Across the US Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
August 27, 2025
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
‘Victory for Pennsylvania Voters and Our Democracy’: Court Rules State Must Stop Throwing out Mail Ballots Over Date Errors
August 26, 2025
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
August 26, 2025
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation
August 25, 2025
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
