Will the Internet Lead Us All to a Democracy of Ideas?

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"We've fallen into this chapel post regardless of social media polarization," says Wilson. "People will say it was over hyped and then parts of it will turn out to have been important after all." Stone: I don't like the Yippee's politics but I like their ability to get the media to pay attention to them through these kind of pranks'

In this episode, we chat with Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America.

IN AMERICA. He is an editor at Reason magazine, and he lives in Baltimore.

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Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer Ryan Reeves

“In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade). You come out the other side either stone paranoid or an agnostic; there is no third way. I came out agnostic.” -RAW