After a paragraph on the perils facing early-modern Jews whose financial labors funded Christian rulers, he dryly remarks, “Court Jews may have been courtly, but they were still Jews. Some of these crackpot theories are more pernicious than others, but at root each has the same poisonous combination of antisemitism, xenophobia and stupidity. The only conclusion I can draw is that anti-semitism runs much deeper and is more entrenched in our global viewpoint that I realize. On Tuesday, Greene appeared in an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored that featured several minutes of arguments and denials concerning the infamous theory. In 2021, Media Matters reported on a now-deleted Facebook post in which the right-wing lawmaker claimed a space laser controlled by an executive at a bank owned by the Rothschild family — a Jewish family that has been the target of several antisemitic conspiracy theories — caused a California wildfire.

Over the years, they have been blamed for everything from the sinking of the Titanic, to causing the Great Depression, and even creating the COVID-19 pandemic. Mike employs a systematic, evidence-based approach to unravel the misconceptions about the Rothschild family's history.Mike Johnson, the vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, responded “of course not” and “of course not. For the most part, Rothschild keeps the focus relatively narrow in scope, occasionally indulging in a tangent or offering more fulsome analysis on antisemitism in general.

The author carefully walks through the rise of the family and how their success was a driver of Jewish rights across Europe. The remainder of the book caps with antisemitism in the Trump era, including but not limited to the transition of blame from Rothschilds to George Soros and the targeted violence by those taking these conspiracies as fact and choosing to act on the lies. It is very well written and engaging, but I found the last chapters, which focus on the Internet and modern politics, to be the most interesting. When the French Revolution became war in Europe, the prince needed money, and Mayer was able to make “loans and deals as he saw fit.Journalist and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild, who isn’t related to the family, sorts out myth from reality to find the truth about these conspiracy theories and their spreaders.