In Filming History: Question, Disbelieve, Defy. Oliver Stone continues to wave the banner of conspiracy theory.

Allow then, in our million-dollar-a-minute TV culture, a

little space and time for the contrarian in you, and

allow that paranoia in moderation, like red wine, is

healthy precisely because conspiracy does not sleep.

Our failure of perception is the reason we rarely see it.

Why? “Treason doth never prosper,” an English poet

once wrote. “What’s the reason? For if it prosper, none

dare call it treason.”