All posts tagged "qanon"

• Political Education

  Hitchens Razor

  The late Christopher Hitchens was an intellectual, philosopher, journalist, and novelist. In one of his books, Hitchens put forth his ‘razor’: That...

• Politics

  The Patty Hearst Brain Washing Defense

  Authoritarian political cults such as Qanon not only indoctrinate their members with conspiracy theories but have also moved some of those cult...

• Political Education

  Talking with Conspiracy Theorists

  Historian Richard Hofstadter wrote “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” in 1964. Hofstadter used the word ‘paranoid’ in a non-clinical sense because...

• Elections

  Whither the Republican Party?

  Mark Twain is reputed to have said “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes”. The way conservatives have dealt with today’s...