Conspiracy Theory is Political Theory: War, Knowledge, and Planning in Postwar American Political Thought

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Brief Overview

Conspiracy theory is neither a content-neutral rhetorical style nor a type of cognitive error. Instead, it is an emerging political theory with roots in postwar debates over systems theory, totalitarianism and wartime economic planning.

Author

• Winston Cg Berg, University of Chicago