From President Trump himself to conservative commentators on Fox News, conspiracy theories about COVID-19 are putting lives at risk. At first, it seems hard to believe that reactions to the now worldwide coronavirus pandemic would divide American political leaders and ordinary citizens along ideological lines. But, in fact, it has. It began with President Trump’s initial take that the… Continue reading “The Dangers Of Right-Wing Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories”
Some 80 years ago, the American historian, Crane Brinton, wrote The Anatomy of Revolution in which he sought to plot the stages of popular revolts. In fact, he attempted to identify the pattern of the French Revolution (1789), and add comments about Britain’s ‘Glorious Revolution’ (1688), the American Revolution (1776) and the Bolshevik Revolution in… Continue reading “The Desertion of the Intellectuals?”