The Secret Origins of 'Conspiracy Theory'

Reason Magazine10 min read
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Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Does anything I write matter anymore?

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Words, words, words

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Paradise Revisited

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Kinkajous commute. Dusky farmerfish grow crops. Octopuses build cities. Cathedral termites build taller, relatively, than any human skyscraper

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Who Is America's Homer?

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Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds

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Paul Klee painted it. Walter Benjamin coveted it. And Morgan Meis spent a lifetime obsessing over it

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Thirty-seven paintings, 15 children, 43 years, and almost no paper trail: Vermeer is known to us only through crumbs and scraps

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Daisy Hay: Glitter and Dazzle

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The Twitnam Summer by Hester Grant review – Swift, Gay and Pope’s season in the sun

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Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point

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The Renaissance didn't begin in Florence. It began six thousand years ago in the Middle East. So argues a new book

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Debate over whether David Foster Wallace was a virtuosic bully or a genius with a heart of gold has eclipsed consideration of his work

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Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories

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What AI’s Style Tells Us About It

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When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage

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Is a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.

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Why “Book-Shaming” Won’t Solve the Children’s Literacy Crisis

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