CLEVELAND — Rocky Colavito, a wildly popular outfielder who was involved in one of the most debated trades in Cleveland sports history, has died. His popularity was evident across Northeast Ohio as sandlot ballplayers everywhere imitated Rocky’s on-deck circle routine of kneeling, then as he stepped into the batter’s box the stretching the bat over the shoulders and pointing the …
Conspiracy theories and anti-intellectualism have been distinguishing attributes of the American right since at least the 1950s. Colavito also discusses the overlaps between coronavirus conspiracy theories and the QAnon worldview, whose obsession with "global elites" is a continuation of centuries-old antisemitic and racist tropes that now have more power because of the internet, social media and the right-wing echo chamber. …
