Academic literature on conspiracy theories is limited, but there are enough books on the market to see how scholars have approached the subject — that is, as the “relic of a populist, right wing, political tradition, which refuses to go awa…New Covenant Baptist. “The Lion and the Lamb (Mandela Effect Debunked).” YouTube Video, 7:35. July 29, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ku06695qs.
Pinchbeck, Daniel. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. New York: Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin…[^42]: Jovan Byford, Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 19. For an academic overview of conspiracy theories see Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary …
Daniel Pipes
historian · 3 mentions across 1 reading
In this course
Pipes appears only as a passing reference in the course readings, cited in a footnote discussing scholarly approaches to conspiracy theories as a field of study. His work on conspiracy theories is invoked to establish the intellectual genealogy of how academics have framed conspiratorial thinking as a right-wing populist phenomenon, though the excerpts don't elaborate on his specific argument or its role in the seminar's broader engagement with belief systems and AI narratives.
Background
Daniel Pipes is an American former professor, counter-jihad activist, and commentator on foreign policy and the Middle East. He is the president of the Middle East Forum, and publisher of its Middle East Quarterly journal. His writing focuses on American foreign policy and the Middle East as well as criticism of Islamism.
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