Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.

Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explor

In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day

How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis. Pola

Analyzes and refutes twenty of the most predominant theories involving the United States government's role in perpetrating the September 11, 2001 terrorist atta