In later life Jean-Jacques Rousseau became convinced that former friends, including Diderot and Voltaire were plotting against him. He accused David Hume, who’d brought him to London to escape persecution in France, of much the same. Rousseau had many real enemies, including both Catholics and the Calvinists, and his books had been burnt in public. […]
In recent weeks, Carrie Prejean Boller, the former Miss California who emerged as an anti-LGBTQ+ activist and recent convert to Catholicism, has thrust herself into the spotlight with antisemitic allegations linking global injustices to an opaque network of influence. Known for her reactionary positions on faith, politics, and social issues, Prejean Boller has faced widespread […]
The DOJ's release of three million documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation has touched off what could charitably labeled a feeding frenzy. Every journalist, Epstein watcher, conspiracy theorist, and researcher has gobbled them up like koi rising to the surface of a pond, mouths agape as they suck in food pellets. Some of the […]
Ali Dawah (born Erdi Kiliç) has built one of the largest platforms in the radical Islamist Sunni da‘wa proselytization scene. The British-Kurdish YouTuber, active since 2013, commands over 1.3 million subscribers and hundreds of millions of views. His combined social media platforms including YouTube, Instagram and others bring him close to 1.8 million followers. From […]
The shooting death of conservative media figure Charlie Kirk in Utah on September 10th sparked the usual deluge of conspiracy theories about who “really” did it and why. Within minutes, and with absolutely no supporting evidence, social media was flooded with claims that Kirk had been shot dead by a leftist transgender rights advocate, had […]
Dan Bilzerian is a misogynist social media identity and cannabis merchant who markets a gun-toting, porn and gambling jetset lifestyle while hawking Holocaust denial and multiform anti-Jewish hate to his tens of millions of followers. The Florida-born 44 year-old is a failed Navy SEAL candidate who acquired Armenian citizenship in 2018. Bilzerian has been dubbed […]
Conspiracy theories about powerful elites who rule through secrecy have long been a staple of fringe literature and paranoid fantasies. From the Freemasons and the Illuminati of the 18th century to the Rothschilds and other Jewish financiers referred to in works like “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” to today’s supposedly all-powerful “deep state,” […]
When notorious pedophile and wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein died in a jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors, he left conspiracy theorists with a tangled web of lurid mysteries that would keep them busy for years to come. Suspicions that Epstein hadn’t really hanged himself soon gave way to […]
