The past is present
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On July 18, 2024, Donald Trump officially accepted the Republican Party’s nomination as its candidate for president. While there was no shortage of unconventional speeches at the Republican National Convention (RNC) held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one speech stuck out. Merely an hour before Trump capped off his four-day coronation, Hulk Hogan, the former star of... Continue Reading →
The United States has almost always been a very politically divided nation. Conservative majorities on the Supreme Court are mistakenly viewed as unique to recent years, but they are really the norm in American history. So too is political polarization the norm.
"A Global History of Lies" starts in the present. We consider how a confluence of technological, economic, political and social forces has reshaped the contours and possibilities of misinformation and disinformation and their role in the development of rumors, conspiracy theories, and hoaxes. We then trace the arc of conspiratorial thinking and rumors from the sixteenth century through the era of Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Orban, and Erdogan.
Disaffected Americans living in today’s era of wealth inequality may turn to someone new as they did in the past if both Biden and Trump are nominated by their respective conventions this summer, as presumed.
Clio and the Contemporary 