Conspiracism is killing us — and our democracy

More and more mass killings are being fueled by conspiracy theories, but that's only the half of the threat they pose.

It’s not a coincidence that there is a powerful thread running through a number of recent scenes of mass violence, connecting them not just thematically but in terms of causation. The connective tissue is one we’ve become familiar with, to the point now that it’s almost taken for granted: a powerful belief in conspiracy theories, so deep that the perpet…