Alex Rothbard

The Architecture of Conspiracy Theories

a disgust, a disdain - birtherism - « death panels » - by no means the province of a completely isolated fringe - not defined either by their substance, nor by their adherents - the style of the conspiratorial imagination - new evidence is folded in - a story buried in the back of a small town newspaper - « There's nothing theoretical in what we talk about » - cui bono - a comprehensible soap opera - cognitive infiltration