Combining both distant and close reading, they show what is new and what isn’t, and make a compelling argument that these conspiracy theories are often rooted in legitimate concerns and social anxieties. Her writing is always insightful and prescient, and this book from 2019 offers readers deep insight into what’s been happening to this country in the last decade. A careful, nuanced overview of the way conspiracy theories help make—and unmake—the world we share, and how Covid-19 conspiracy theories have seamlessly become part of broader, much older narratives about power and control, freedom and paranoia.

Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret.Across history and geography, contributors inquire into the affects and imaginaries of political mobilization, tracking counterrevolutionary projects while acknowledging collective futures that demand conspiratorial engagement. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory.

Morton Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria. Especially when the old guard yells at you, and you are the type who takes that as a sign you're doing everything right.When Bruno’s old rival, Father Paul Lefèvre is found murdered, Bruno is drawn into a dangerous web of religious politics and court intrigue.

Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. To insert "gay" into that, to be seen as the best gay technology investor, seemed artificially limiting. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander.Merlan has been on the front lines of fringe and extremist culture as a reporter for Vice, chronicling the dark underbelly of American thought—one that has, in recent years, unfortunately come to light. They gave their readers-the people who made up those numbers at the top of each post-what their own bitterness and ressentiment had always craved but no one had seen fit to give them before. This engaging book will be an important read for anyone concerned about the future direction of American politics, as well as anyone who's watched friends or family fall into patterns of conspiratorial thinking. It is both horrifying, and yet not at all surprising, to discover the motives for some of the most damaging theories stemmed from the selfish desires of a single person or small group of people, though others were borne simply of fear, ignorance, and even, occasionally, a desire to do some good.