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Anna Merlan
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
New York: Henry Holt, 2019
Anna Merlan’s Republic of Lies exemplifies the typical Leftist outrage over the recent rise of nationalism on the Right. Instead of taking on Right-wing concerns in order to refute them, however, Merlan attempts to smear and discredit Right-wing people – who are mostly white – as deranged conspiracy nuts with a weakness for snake oil and demagoguery. Read more …
The Five Biggest Lies of 2020
I’ve never been a particularly conspiratorial-minded guy.
In my 35 years on this planet, I have lived in so many places, and encountered so many different types of people, Read more …