The Conspiracy Singularity: COVID, QAnon, and the Merging of Communities of Suspicion

TU students join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for their second Common Read program! Anna Merlan joins us to talk about Tara Westover’s “Educated” and conspiracy theories.

Anna Merlan is a journalist and author, specializing in subcultures, alternative communities, conspiracy theories, crime, belief, death, sexual violence and women’s lives. She is currently a reporter at Motherboard, a division of VICE. She was previously a reporter at the Special Projects Desk, an investigative division within Gizmodo Media Group, a senior reporter at Jezebel, and a staff writer at the Village Voice and the Dallas Observer. Her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, BBC Travel, Topic, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. She has been accused of being both a lizard person and a CIA agent, but never at the same time.