What Conspiracy Theories Say About Us: Jesse Walker on The United States of Paranoia ReasonTV
go to original August 21, 2013

ReasonTV's Nick Gillespie sat down with Jesse Walker to discuss his book, the deep history of conspiracy theories in America, and how he became fascinated with the topic. (ReasonTV)

"Political paranoia, and conspiracy theories in particular, have been a part of the United States since before there was a United States," explains Reason Magazine books editor Jesse Walker, author of the new book The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. "Even when a conspiracy theory says absolutely nothing true about the object of the theory, if it catches on it says something true about the anxieties and the experiences about the people who believe it."

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