Arthur Goldwag
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Arthur Goldwag is the author of The Beliefnet Guide to Kabbalah, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies; -Isms and -Ologies; and The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Panic about Catholics, Freemasons, and, later, Jews, is deeply woven into American history, and forms the basis of our fertile culture of conspiracy theorizing.