conspiracism

Much of the hullabaloo surrounding Rick Santorum’s comment that President Obama is a “snob” for pushing college is missing the bigger picture: that Santorum is a cosmic conspiracy theorist, and higher education sits at the heart of the imagined conspiracy.

The bell of evil tolls for thee.

An old conspiracy theory says gun control leads to genocide.

The New Apostolic Reformation has been in the news a great deal since Rick Perry first announced his prayer rally, The Response. Sarah Posner has an investigative journalist’s view of this movement, its place in religious movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in politics. Here she is in conversation with Anthea Butler, a scholar of American religious history.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is communist, Congressman claims.

The documentary serves as a good illustration of the gradual and subtle influence of R. J. Rushdoony’s work in the broader culture—often in places where his name is completely unknown.

New poll shows greater evangelical suspicion of Obama’s religion, evolution, and interracial marriage.

Call it a “farce” and a “rump hearing.”

Anti-choice activists and the USCCB claim there’s a cover-up of a purported abortion-breast cancer link.

Who’s fighting a war on religion?