Conspiracy Theories

Aliens...Again!

This time, they always say, it could be different.

Michael Shermer

8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read

President Eisenhower’s warning deserves to be better understood.

George Case

26 Apr 2023 · 6 min read

COVID, Trump, Brexit—everybody’s had something to break their brains in recent years and some people may never recover.

31 Mar 2023 · 14 min read

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

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

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

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

Richard Redding

15 Sep 2021 · 5 min read

Quillette

22 Nov 2019 ·