QAnon
Daily Comment
Watching Trump Embrace QAnon from the Historical Jewish Quarter of Kraków
Centers hold, until they don’t.
Our Columnists
Why Is Trump Openly Embracing QAnon Now?
The former President is likely signalling to prosecutors that he won’t go quietly, so they had better beware.
The New Yorker Documentary
A Filmmaker and a Building Superintendent, Both Looking for Truth
In Michael Patten’s documentary, a building superintendent in Brooklyn offers an unvarnished view into his work, life, and beliefs.
Books
What Makes a Cult a Cult?
The line between delusion and what the rest of us believe may be blurrier than we think.
On Religion
A Pennsylvania Lawmaker and the Resurgence of Christian Nationalism
How Doug Mastriano’s rise embodies the spread of a movement centered on the belief that God intended America to be a Christian nation.
Shouts & Murmurs
ZAnon: A Higher-Ranking Anon Sets the Record Straight
The moon landing was faked, but it wasn’t by Stanley Kubrick.
Daily Comment
The Link Between the Capitol Riot and Anti-Abortion Extremism
The importance of an anti-abortion stance to the anti-government far right has received new attention since January 6th.
The Political Scene
South Carolina Republicans Face a Trump-Fuelled Schism
The former President has left the White House, but the battle for the G.O.P. is only getting started.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
QAnon Fears That Greene’s Obsession with Jewish Space Lasers Is Distracting Her from Battling Baby-Eating Cannibals
In an emergency meeting of QAnon elders, the conspiracy theorists issued a communiqué warning Marjorie Taylor Greene to “stay on point.”
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Donald Trump’s American Carnage Comes to Washington
The New Yorker’s reporters and writers reflect on the convulsive end to the Trump years. And a game designer explains why the fiction of QAnon has been so appealing and so dangerous.
A Reporter at Large
Among the Insurrectionists
The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.
The Campaign Trail
The Regular Guy Who Almost Challenged Georgia’s QAnon Candidate
With Kevin Van Ausdal bowing out, Marjorie Taylor Greene sees her congressional bid as her chance “to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles out.”
U.S. Journal
How the “QAnon Candidate” Marjorie Taylor Greene Reached the Doorstep of Congress
“There’s nothing she can do to lose my vote, unless she murdered a baby or something,” a local Republican official said. “Nothing.”
Cultural Comment
The Flashing Warning of QAnon
The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress.
Comment
The Republicans’ Conspiratorial Convention
Trump and his supporters claimed that his opponents are seeking to deceive and subdue Americans. It’s a dangerous path.
American Chronicles
What’s New About Conspiracy Theories?
Outsiders have always had a weakness for paranoid fantasies. Now our leaders are conspiracists, too.
