The United States is amidst a full-blown moral panic concerning the authenticity and proliferation of online discourse. This latest culture of information anxiety over “misinformation” is an example of what one preeminent scholar called “conspiracy panics.” This panic is similar to an earlier fear of the “ultraright,” which helped define American politics throughout the 1960s. … Continue reading Power Elite Analysis: Lessons from the ‘Conspiracist’ Right and New Left Academics