Talkin' Conspiracies at Cato

A forum on political paranoia.

Earlier this week I spoke about my book The United States of Paranoia at the Cato Institute, with additional comments from Cato's Gene Healy and The American Conservative's Daniel McCarthy. (McCarthy was a last-minute substitute for The New York Times' Sam Tanenhaus, who was waylaid by some sort of Amtrak conspiracy.) You can watch a recording of the event below:

In related news:

• Franklin Harris reviews the book.

• Todd Seavey reviews the book.

• Richard Sincere interviews me about the book, and then he interviews me about it some more.

Comments

[sarcasmic]

You know who else... forget it. It's just not funny anymore.

[jesse.in.mb]

Hitler?

[KPres]

How do you have an entire discussion about paranoia and not once mention the 1%/corporate elite garbage? That's clearly the most widespread paranoid conspiracy out there.

[Paul.]

It's certainly the most mainstream.

[BoZimmerman]

Hahah.. great point -- I was thinking the same thing while I watched this video.

I like to make fun of those folks by pretending to agree with them, but putting absurd names to the corporate conspirators -- such as calling out Bed Bath and Beyond or Footlocker as conspiring to enslave and impoverish us all...