Lewis Lapham: Americans Love a Good Conspiracy Yarn

     Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Jesse Walker talks with Lewis Lapham about his book, "The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory." (Source: Bloomberg)

Not True? Who Cares? Americans Love a Conspiracy

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Lewis Lapham

'The United States of Paranoia'

Jesse Walker

In 1978, John Todd came to the Open Door Church in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and told the crowd that before he’d been a Christian, he’d been a witch.

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