Jill Lepore traces the history of conspiracy theories and the conditions that allow them to thrive; Tim Crane talks us through whether we have free will or not, and why it is still a problem; Michael Caines looks at non-traditional approaches to criticism
Books
CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THEM, edited by Joseph E. Uscinski
CONSPIRACIES OF CONSPIRACIES: How delusions have overrun America, by Thomas Milan Konda
THE STIGMATIZATION OF CONSPIRACY THEORY SINCE THE 1950s: ‘A plot to make us look foolish’, by Katharina Thalmann
THE AMERICAN CONSPIRACIES AND COVER-UPS: JFK, 9/11, the Fed, rigged elections, suppressed cancer cures, and the greatest conspiracies of our time, by Douglas Cirignano
REPUBLIC OF LIES: American conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to power, by Anna Merlan
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING:The new conspiracism and the assault on democracy, by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum
HARVESTER OF HEARTS: Motherhood under the sign of Frankenstein, by Rachel Feder
THE HUNDREDS, by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart
TUNNEL VISION, by Kevin Breathnach
ON THE LITERARY MEANS OF REPRESENTING THE POWERFUL AS POWERLESS, by Steven Zultanski
The Limits of Free Will: Selected essays by Paul Russell
Aspects of Agency: Decisions, abilities, explanations, and free will by Alfred R. Mele
Self-Determination: The ethics of action – Volume One by Thomas Pink
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