Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America Audiobook (Free)

It’s tempting to believe that we reside in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy ideas, with seemingly each churn of the news headlines cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. However the sad simple truth is these narratives of suspicion-and the delusional psychologies that energy them-have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there’s been an America.

In this sweeping publication, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country’s obsession with conspiratorial thought from about Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America the first days of the republic to our own anxious minute. Rather than merely rehashing the top eccentricities of such theories, Konda pulls from his unparalleled assemblage of conspiratorial composing to crack open the mindsets that business lead people toward these self-sealing worlds of denial. What’s distinctively American about these theories, he argues, isn’t just our country’s homegrown obsession with them but their ongoing prevalence and virulence. Konda demonstrates that conspiracy theories are no safe sideshow. They are rather the dark and secret center of American political history-one that is poisoning the blood stream of an increasingly sick body politic.