Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America edited by Peter Knight: “Paranoia and conspiracy, as most of the writers in this collection of essays seem to agree, finds it wellspring in two primary sources: the uncertainties inherent in the postmodern condition and the increasingly diffuse nature of late capitalism. In other words, the culturally destabilizing force known as globalization, and all it represents, is the main culprit.”