QAnon Is Like a Game--a Most Dangerous Game

When QAnon emerged in 2017, the game designer Adrian Hon felt a shock of recognition. QAnon, as you very likely know, is the right-wing conspiracy theory that revolves around a figure named Q. This supposedly high-ranking insider claims that the deep state--an alleged cabal led by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros and abetted by decadent celebrities--is running a global child-sex-trafficking ring and plotting a left-wing coup. Only Donald Trump heroically stands in the way. But what intrigued Hon was the style of nonsense.