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Unlocked: Bonus Episode 31 - The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh pt. 1: Narrative Archetypes and the Study of Conspiracy Theory, feat. Wendy Painting

Programmed to Chill

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The Guilty Agent Story

Tim McBae is the ultimate conspiracy theorist of the 1990s, or the most notorious anyway. He's a guilty agent, lacking agency and being controlled in his mind. The experimental wolf breaks with all other understandings of the bombings because it takes away Tim McBae's agency.

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