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Conspiracy theories

Jacob’s Dream
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MAGA meets the Age of Aquarius

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Cold Light of Day
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From an interview with Sam Kriss conducted by Justin E. H. Smith for The Point’s What Is X? podcast, which was released in May. Flat-earthers are conspiracy theorists who believe…

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The Anxiety of Influencers
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Educating the TikTok generation

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Life After Trump
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Reality after trump Tabloids after trump Movies after trump Relationships after trump Manners after trump Imagination after trump Gold after trump Conversation after trump Punctuation after trump Apologies after trump…

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Complexity
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QAnon and the mechanics of belief

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Complexity
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With two supporters, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado, just elected to the House of Representatives, the QAnon conspiracy theory looks set to survive in some…

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Melancholy Science
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From “Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment,” an essay from the collection Splinters in Your Eye, which will be published this month by Verso. On July 22, 2011, a neofascist Norwegian terrorist named…

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The Reichstag Fire Next Time
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The coming crackdown

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Tears for Fears
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One of the many poignant glimpses of midcentury America afforded me by a fiftieth-anniversary reading of the Warren Report was the story of an ephemeral conservative organization called the American…

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Act of contrition
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The war on error
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