Jonah teams up with Mike Rothschild (who, shockingly enough, is not a member of the Rothschild family) to discuss conspiracy theories and the fallacies that undergird them on today's Remnant. In a conversation that touches on wackiness ranging from Pizzagate to the Rothschilds' supposed lease on Israel, Jonah and Mike try to understand why conspiracy theories formulate and what makes people subscribe to them. What do pro-Trump conspiracy theories indicate about the state of our institutions? Why is antisemitism such a pervasive evil? And  a general decline in in social media to connect crazy people to crazy ideas in ways that underground bookstores never could.

Show Notes:

-Mike’s new book, Jewish Space Lasers

-Mike: “The Internet Never Met a Conspiracy Theory It Can’t Love”

-Mike: “On the Rothschilds’ Myth in Literature and Film”

-The Rothschilds and Waterloo

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