James Bloodworth is a writer and journalist from London.
In Britain, punk is often seen as a reaction to national decline, coming up from the streets, while its roots in Situationist political pranking have been discredited. Maybe it’s time to look again at Malcolm McLaren and his ten-point plan.
Journalist Tom O’Neill’s book CHAOS uncovered undeniably bizarre facts— and high-profile lies — about the 1969 murders that we still can’t stop thinking about.
Publishers love a good story. And some of the best ones are completely bogus.
In the 1970s, the public flocked to movies about the US government’s shadowy misdeeds.
No art movement has ever been so comprehensively faked as the revolutionary “Russian avant-garde” of the 1910s and 1920s.
Conspiracy theories are rife with esoteric motifs. But what do those symbols actually represent?
In 1940, did French elites roll out the welcome mat for Nazi Germany?
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Conspiracy theories are common and dangerous, but they probably can’t explain why Americans don’t trust the government.
The classic show The X-Files celebrated and satirized America’s love of conspiracy theories before they became an all-consuming obsession. When the show returned to the air after a long gap, it had to confront a culture of paranoia that made Fox Mulder’s imagination look tame.
Some people suspect that humanity’s greatest achievements aren’t human achievements at all. Some people suspect that humanity’s greatest achievements aren’t human achievements at all.
The 1998 B-list slasher film Urban Legend unleashes on its protagonists a host of horrors from the American folk canon. Some have their roots in real life.
The Manson Family left a trail of bodies in 1969. No one should have been surprised.
And he sounds like . . . a hippie?
Even the CIA has debunked “Havana syndrome” — the belief that hypersonic weapons are making American diplomats sick — but diehards in the media and Congress won’t let it go.
It’s now impossible to distinguish “conspiracy theories” from the day-to-day hysteria of our era of hyperpolitics.
Lyndon LaRouche started off lecturing about dialectics and Rosa Luxemburg. By the 1980s, he was Glenn Beck with a private security force.
From lab leaks to mask efficacy, the media enforcement of scientific consensus through a policing of which questions are acceptable to ask is itself unscientific.
How hedge fund manager George Soros became enemy number one of the international right.
Crunching the numbers on the class war.