Jesse Walker
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Jesse Walker (born September 4, 1970) is books editor of No Depression, and the Journal of American Studies.
Views
Walker's writings display a definite libertarian bent, and he has cast a protest vote for the Libertarian Party's nominee in every presidential election of his adult lifetime except one, though "more often than not, I think they've put up a terrible candidate."[2]
Foreign policy
Walker was critical of the
Conspiracy Theories
He has identified five kinds of conspiracy theories:
- The "Enemy Outside" refers to theories based on figures alleged to be scheming against a community from without.
- The "Enemy Within" finds the conspirators lurking inside the nation, indistinguishable from ordinary citizens.
- The "Enemy Above" involves powerful people manipulating events for their own gain.
- The "Enemy Below" features the lower classes working to overturn the social order.
- The "Benevolent Conspiracies" are angelic forces that work behind the scenes to improve the world and help people.[6]
Selected bibliography
- "Every Man a Sultan: Indigenous Responses to the Somalia Crisis". Telos 103 (Spring 1995). New York: Telos Press.
References
- ^ "Jesse Walker". 19 September 2023.
- Chris Hayes (2012-10-03) MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Reason’s Jesse Walker on What Tonight’s Debate Really Needs Archived 2012-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, New York
- ^ "We're Not Winning the War on Terrorism". 11 September 2002.
- ^ "Terrorism, Security, and Slippery Slopes". 10 February 2003.
- ^ "The Myth of Isolationism". 5 April 2017.
- ^ Jesse Walker, The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (2013) excerpt and text search
External links
- Perpetual Three-Dot Column
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- No Depression archive
- NPR Interview, "Suspicious? In 'United States Of Paranoia,' It's Not Just You"
- Nieman Lab Interview, "The history of American conspiracy theories holds some lessons for fake news debunkers, says Jesse Walker"
- Vice Interview, "America’s Not-So-Secret Paranoid Underbelly"
- The Atlantic, "How Russian Trolls Imitate American Political Dysfunction"
- The New Republic, "All the President’s Phantoms"