Crackpot Realism and the Persistence of Power

A sociological analysis of capitalist criminality and the imperial US deep state, based on the concepts of the "higher immorality" and "crackpot realism," introduced by scholar C. Wright Mills in his book "The Power Elite." This is PART 9 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mxcyvUfrXsc You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception