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At a Distance

Hari Kunzru on Why People Find Comfort in Conspiracy Theories

Sep 22, 2020
37:19
Writer and journalist Hari Kunzru, author of the new novel “Red Pill” and host of the Into the Zone podcast, talks with us about the unsettling concept of “hyperstition,” how isolation exacerbates feelings of unreality, and the fine line between the logical and the illogical.

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