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Jason Colavito

Jason Colavito is an author in upstate New York writing about history, science, and popular culture. He is the author of The Legends of the Pyramids and Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean..

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August 21, 2025

Jason Colavito

The Super-Weird Origins of the Right’s Hatred of the Smithsonian

The Trump administration has stepped up its antagonism of America’s treasured museums. But conservative antipathy toward the institution began long ago—with the bones of Bible giants.

December 5, 2022

Jason Colavito

The Strange and Dangerous Right-Wing Freakout Over Ancient Apocalypse

How a Netflix series about the hunt for the lost city of Atlantis became yet another front in the culture war—and the latest example of elite conservatives going weird.

December 14, 2021

Jason Colavito

Congress Is About to Send the Pentagon on a Wild Flying-Saucer Chase

The long lobbying campaign of a handful of UFO obsessives and crank pseudoscientists is finally paying off.

May 21, 2021

Jason Colavito

How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers

A collection of well-funded UFO obsessives are using their Capitol Hill connections to launder some outré, and potentially dangerous, ideas.

Jason Colavito

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