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Pain, Wisdom and Mercy
Honestly with Bari Weiss
Is There a Conspiracy in the World?
I've been thinking a lot lately about how conspiracies are really comforting. I'm curious about what you think is going on right now in the culture that makes conspiratorial thinking so attractive, including to so many smart people. People have lost faith in institutions, but out of at loss of faith, there's still a desire to find order in the world. And if you're coming, if you have this sense of sort of futility in paranoia, the order that you discern in the world is more likely to be malignant. You certainly saw this on the right, where people on the right looked at the sheer chaos that overtook the american establishment during the summer of two thousand and
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