New book has a cover

The Great Reset
Muse, “Uprising”
Tears for Fears, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
Pink Floyd, “Welcome to the Machine”

The Great Replacement
Neil Young, “Southern Man”
Rage Against the Machine, “Killing in the Name Of”
The Clash, “White Man in Hammersmith”
John Lennon, “Imagine”

COVID-19
Radiohead, “Myxomatosis”
Thomas Dolby, “She Blinded me with Science”
Beck, “Cellphone’s Dead”
Pink Floyd, “Comfortably Numb”
Disturbed, “Down with the Sickness”
The Bee Gees, “Night Fever”

Democracy and Elections
Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the USA”
The Who, “Won't Get Fooled Again”
Green Day, “American Idiot”
Leonard Cohen, “Democracy”

Climate Conspiracism
Led Zeppelin, “When the Levee Breaks”
The Doors, “Riders on the Storm”
Midnight Oil, “Beds are Burning”
Kenny Chesney, “Setting the World on Fire”
Disturbed, “Another Way to Die”

Jeffrey Epstein
Alice in Chains, "No Excuses"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Red Right Hand"

QAnon
Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Californication”
Guns ‘n’ Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle”
Misfits, “Hollywood Babylon”

September 11th
Green Day, “American Idiot”
Green Day, “Wake me up when September Ends”
Toby Keith, “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue”

The New World Order
REM, “It’s the End of the World”
REM, “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth”
Ministry, “New World Order”
Non Phixion, “Black Helicopters”

UFOs
Blink-182, “Aliens Exist”
David Bowie, “Space Oddity”
David Bowie, “Starman”

Satanic Panic
The Grateful Dead, “Friend of the Devil”
The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil”
Van Halen, “Running with the Devil”

MLK Assassination
Marvin Gaye, “Abraham, Martin, and John”

The Kennedy Assassination
Buffalo Springfield, “What’s Going On?”
Elvis Costello, “Less than Zero”

MK Ultra
Lady Gaga, "LoveDrug"
Bon Jovi, "Bad Medicine"

The Red Scare
Harvey Danger, “Flagpole Sitta”

The Salem Witch Trials
Donovan, “Season of the Witch”
The Eagles, “Witchy Woman”

The United States and Conspiracism
David Bowie, “I’m Afraid of Americans”

The Illuminati
Beyonce, “Formation”

Each time I start a section of my Conspiracy Theories class, I take attendance while playing some music and have created a conspiracy theories playlist. Thought I would share in case you'd like to use it! Thread below matches songs to topic.

Imagine dying for that.

I know. I just think it’s hilarious that someone thought they’d get a conspiracy theory and annoyed Fuentes into claiming to be liberal now. Lmao

“The Thong Song” -Sisqo

Seriously. I’ll claim to be a liberal now for $25

He got $25 for that?

Just attended an interesting panel on AI and the workforce with industry leaders and professors and the one thing they agreed successful applicants will need today? Curiosity.

Zachary Loeb (Purdue University) and I are calling all conspiracy theory researchers whose work might focus on the intersection of Disaster Studies and Conspiracism Studies for a new book project (press tbd).

Deadline for abstracts is May 15, 2026: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/...

And everyone clapped

New book arrived in the mail!

Worse, I just watched a CIA section chief basically use the same argument about Iran today as though regime change has ever worked