Aliens...Again! This time, they always say, it could be different. Michael Shermer 8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
Military-Industrial Complexities President Eisenhower’s warning deserves to be better understood. George Case 26 Apr 2023 · 6 min read
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory COVID, Trump, Brexit—everybody’s had something to break their brains in recent years and some people may never recover. Christopher J. Snowdon 31 Mar 2023 · 14 min read
Fantastical Beliefs in a Post-Christian Age Without a faith, people must find new sources of meaning, new congregations to which they can belong. Patrick Parkinson 20 Mar 2023 · 12 min read
At the Corner of Camp and Lafayette New Orleans has a starring role in many JFK conspiracy theories—as I learned during an odd but memorable street tour. Jonathan Kay 14 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
Wired for Conspiracism The fact that some conspiracy theories do sometimes turn out to be true helps explain why our minds are evolutionarily programmed to catastrophize. Michael Shermer 30 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
Lessons from Hannah Arendt on Arresting Our ‘Flight From Reality’ Fascism, communism, and transhumanism all lure us into rejecting the real human condition in favor of ideological constructs. Roger Berkowitz 19 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Understanding the Motivated Reasoning of Anti-Vax Refuseniks Richard Redding 15 Sep 2021 · 5 min read