Applying Hofstadter to 2025 Conspiracy Culture

In this special episode, we present talks given by contributing editor Catherine Liu and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style at a recent conference at UC Irvine, co-hosted by the Palm Springs School for Social Research.

• 00:01:23 – Catherine Liu: Opening Remarks, on Richard Hofstatder’s classic essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”

• 00:12:18 – George Hoare: The Paranoid Style in British Politics

• 00:36:06 – Catherine Liu: "Zombies Clowns and Gangsters"

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