Brooklyn, NY (Special to Informed Comment; featured) – The cover of my The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia features a photograph of a bearded, fur-clad man with a horned helmet, tattoos and face paint. On January 6, 2021, Jacob Anthony Chansley, aka the Q Shaman, stood at the House Speakers’ dais […]
Arthur Goldwag
Arthur Goldwag is the author of The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia and The Beliefnet Guide to Kabbalah, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies; -Isms and -Ologies; as well as The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and family.