LG Fadiman is a Connecticut-based writer and folklorist whose work on conspiracy theories, contemporary legends, and the cultural periphery, has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The Baffler, Current Affairs, Orion, and Real Life. She serves as an assistant editor at Jacobin, where her work, both credited and uncredited, appears in print issues on topics including infrastructure, inflation, dealignment, and nationalism. She is also a PhD student in American history at Yale University, where her research focuses on the collaboration of political, penal, and psychiatric institutions during the Interwar period, as well as the legacy of early-20th-century socialist and anarchist groups. Previously, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in folklore and mythology from Harvard College, where her senior thesis considered the role of cell phones in contemporary conspiracy discourse.
Selected works
Bad Religion (The Baffler, 2024)On the pagan revival online and offline in middle America.
Capitalism Is a Conspiracy (Jacobin, 2023)On NESARA and the crude materialism of conspiracy theories.
The Folklore of For-Profit Healthcare (Current Affairs, 2023)On anti-vaxx discourse and medical debt.
Other writing
Death and Taxes (Current Affairs, 2025)On the past and potential of war tax resistance.
Waves of the Future (Jacobin, 2025)On 5G paranoia and the perils of technological progress.
Hope in Hell (Current Affairs, 2025)On the law of attraction in an age of class immobility.
An Age of Indiscretion (Current Affairs, 2024)On the politics of privacy and the need for privacy in politics.
Think of the Children (Current Affairs, 2024)On the youth liberation movement.
The Counterculture's Come-to-Jesus Moment (Jacobin, 2024)On the Jesus people and the making of modern evangelicalism.
The Wimple Life (The Baffler, 2024)On contemporary Catholic convent life in the U.S.
After the End (Orion, 2024)On Norse mythology and the 6th-century dust veil event.
Cyberpunk Politics (Jacobin, 2024)On techno-optimism (and otherwise) at New York Comic Con.
Other Times, Other Manners (Current Affairs, 2024)On The Cut, Emily Post, and the place of etiquette in everyday life.
Rethinking the School (Current Affairs, 2023)On the leftist tradition of radical education.
Biden's BBL (The Drift, 2022)On QAnon cloning fantasies.
Hold the Line (Real Life, 2022)On the rites and rituals of cell phone usage.
The End of Spontaneity (Harvard Magazine, 2020)On the college experience during the early days of COVID-19.
I Come Undone Above the Sink (The Harvard Advocate, 2019)
On dishwashing.
Contact: lgfadiman [at] gmail [dot] com