Thrilled to be hosting the Q&A with Noelle Cook and Liz Smith at the London premiere of 'The Conspiracists' at the Bertha Dochouse on 21 April. A deep, thought-provoking, and very human piece of work I recommend watching – it will stay with you. Join us – tickets here: dochouse.org/event/the-co...

A 'Jan 6' insurrectionist takes a filmmaker and a researcher on a road trip and attempts to convert them to her world of conspiracy theories. Join us on 21 April for a screening of The Conspiracists + Q&A with director Liz Smith & film participant Noelle Cook.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

"By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism."

Four and a half months and absolutely convinced he’s in charge. 🐾

Polls show that public support for Supreme Court term limits is quite high, has bipartisan support, and is relatively stable. bit.ly/4s9k6YO

Independent journalist Amanda Moore @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social has dealt with her stalker’s harassment for years. It hasn’t stopped. It’s escalating. 🧵

I'm really excited about this. I'll be writing for TPM about conspiracy theories, their role in modern politics and culture, and what we can do about it.

The Conspiracists - London Conversations is a week-long series of cinema screenings and Q&As across London, April 21–28. A look at conspiracy thinking and what it says about trust, power, and democratic life. Info+Tix: tr.ee/GUTyFPCL2h

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

Everyone should familiarize themselves with this. Most people have never heard of the “constitutional sheriff” movement. That’s part of the problem. @jesspish.bsky.social, author of The Highest Law in the Land, explains it.

At long last, after years of hard work, I am holding it in my hands. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** comes out on April 7. bookshop.org/p/books/thy-...

🚨BREAKING: An exclusive Democracy Docket investigation shows that California sheriff who seized ballots once wrote "Some people should never be allowed to vote." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The most important part of this story isn’t being reported. Without it, voters cannot understand what this means or how dangerous Bianco’s actions are to democratic norms. open.substack.com/pub/noelleco...

Chad Bianco is aligned with the constitutional sheriffs movement. In 2023, he received the American Sheriff Award from the Claremont Institute. That’s not a small detail. It tells you quite a lot about what he’s aligned with. 1/7

At the very moment when the US is threatening Cuba and Venezuela, at war with Iran, and confronting Russia, Syracuse University is deciding to get rid of majors focusing on Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia??!!

Baltimore (and Towson) people:

Excited to be back in Baltimore this May. I’ll be at Red Emma’s on May 6 talking about The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging. If you’re nearby, I hope you can join us. redemmas.org/events/noell...

wrote about the superhero genre's obsession with monarchy and how that's pretty fucked up. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/superheroe...

Six years ago today, March 18, 2020, days after the pandemic was declared and just before India’s lockdown, I sat across from Shiva with my feet in the Ganges, in a space usually packed shoulder to shoulder.

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right." Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

Dwight Schrute did it first and better.

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

People often think of right-wing conspiracy nuts as Nick Fuentes or Alex Jones look-alikes, but the reality is that many conspiracists are women. @noellecook.com joined me to discuss her new book profiling why millions of women have descended into extremism

My Substack resurfaces, and right on schedule, Hemphill starts lying. She rewrites reality to fit the moment. When the facts expose her, she swaps them for claims so absurd they collapse on contact. If you are still taking her at face value, please ask yourself why.

Shingles does care. But everyone eligible for the vaccine should!

I’ll be in London this April for screenings of The Conspiracists, each followed by a Q&A with director Liz Smith and me. If you’re in the area, details are in the link. Prefer to start with the book? The Conspiracists is available in the U.K. from your bookseller of choice. tr.ee/GUTyFPCL2h

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

Strong odds it's the George Washington that speaks with Glenn Beck. i.ytimg.com/vi/_2jfuxfjG...

We shan’t be unblocking the Strait of Hormuz.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

"The journey I started in India didn’t end when I left. It reshaped all that followed. And helped me understand, more clearly than ever, how belief in conspiracies can also serve as hope." open.substack.com/pub/noelleco...

New symposium on my book is out in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities! It features essays by an extraordinary group of scholars from across Law and History followed by my response. yaleconnect.yale.edu/yjlh/yjlh-is...

My forthcoming book, out in November on Oxford University Press, has a cover!

I would like to hear more of Stephen Miller's ideas about the beneficence of hereditary aristocracy in this, the 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence.

This is outstanding journalism

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

The problem is that Madison was obsessed with "legislative tyranny" and completely ignored the warnings from others like George Mason and Ben Franklin that this is exactly what would happen with a president with great prerogative powers. Madison got it totally wrong.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

He's trying so hard not to admit that flagging "DEI" applications was simply a racist, sexist purge, which he clearly understands it was. Mealy-mouthed circular BS.

If Fred Schneider is traveling 30 miles per hour at 2 pm when he passes a faded sign by the side of the road that says "15 miles to the Love Shack," and at the same time Kate Pierson is departing the Love Shack traveling at 45 miles per hour, when will she pass his Chrysler (as big as a whale)?

This is what happens when you replace actual analysts with 4Chan lurking incel meme lords who don’t read, speak other languages, or know anything about history, geography, economics, or politics.

Today’s a stellar day to leave MAGA.

And, waited, and waited, and waited.

@noellecook.com and The Conspiracists in the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

Some of us remember the last time a revolution in Iran disrupted global oil markets. Prices soared. We waited in gas lines.

What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for US and global oil markets www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

this picture is a good summary of how and why January 6th was, at a fundamental level, a successful insurrection.

During the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald in 1945, many of the camp guards tried to escape by disguising themselves as prisoners or civilians. Newly liberated prisoners recognized several guards immediately, and you can imagine how that ended for them.