WikiLeaks’ October Surprise: With “Spirit Dinners,” Conspiracy Goes Mainstream
Conspiracists have long believed that Hillary Clinton is a member of a Satanic cult.
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Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump: From Strategy to Spin to Straight-Up Bullshit
Is someone a liar if they actually believe their delusions to be true?
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Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?
Islamophobia is trending.
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Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist
Running the gamut from religious fundamentalists to closet atheists, reality TV scandal to serious theological debate, here…
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Remember when the presidential election, or the Republican primary, at least, was going to be…
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What Ben Carson’s Pyramid Theory Might Say About His Foreign Policy
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids has been…
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When it comes to the end-times, Ben Carson may just be confounding the typical narratives…
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Is Monsanto Satan? The Pleasure and Problem of Conspiracy Theory
In this contribution to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary society, Alan Levinovitz explores…
Read MoreRussian Multimillionaire Makes Peace with Anti-Christ Milk
Having stamped the barcodes of all milk produced at Russkoe Moloko with a red ‘X’ for the…
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“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set
In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscript—what he described in Nazarenus as “a Mahometan [i.e., Muslim] Gospel, never before…
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