Conspiracy theories are everywhere, driving politics and culture to a degree that wasn’t possible even a decade ago. These beliefs – from QAnon to the antivaccine movement to “2020 was stolen” to chemtrails to UFO’s to Jews controlling the world – have sucked in millions of people, influenced multiple elections, drove the January 6th insurrection,… Read More Fringe Weird Stuff Isn’t Fringe Anymore…But It’s Still Weird
From utopian currency scams to demonic whispers of trafficking, QAnon exploits American fears and hopes to keep believers on the hook for an endless series of promises and lies.… Read More The American Roots of QAnon, Part Two
QAnon may be an international conspiracy theory based on ancient tropes, but its combination of aspiration and paranoia is also deeply and uniquely American.… Read More The American Roots of QAnon, Part One
Will Twitter’s crackdown on QAnon be the end of the conspiracy? Nothing has been so far.… Read More QAnon is Dead, Long Live QAnon: Thoughts on the Q Twitter Ban
The “Wayfair trafficking conspiracy” was instantly debunked and never really believable. So why did so many people believe it? … Read More Waif Error: Why the Wayfair Conspiracy Theory Took Off
Mike Rothschild 
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