Hillel Neuer
Fighting dictatorships & double standards. Int'l lawyer & human rights activist. Exec Director, UN Watch. BA, BCL, LLB, LLM & Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa.
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“Yes, @jonkay, it's true: before a packed @JNFca audience last Thursday night in Toronto, I mentioned your must-read book, "Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground." https://t.co/WOCfZs4z2R https://t.co/Jxf39wYNv8” (from X)
From 9/11 conspiracy theorists and UFO obsessives tothe cult of Ayn Rand and Birthercrusaders, America is suffering from an explosion in post-rationalistideological movements. In Among the Truthers,journalist Jonathan Kay offers a thoughtful and sobering look at how socialnetworking and Web-based video sharing have engendered a flourishing of new conspiracism. Kay details the sociological profiles of tenbrands of modern conspiracists—the Failed Historian,the Mid-Life Crack-Up, the Damaged Survivor, the Campus Revolutionary, theStoner, the Clinical Case, the Puzzle Solver, the Christian Doomsayer, the CosmicVoyager, and the Egomaniac—in a compelling exploration of America’s departurefrom reason and what it means for the very future of rational discourse as thenation steps further into the 21st century.