Chatter: Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories and Pop Culture, with Mike Rothschild
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Conspiracy theories about supposed Jewish control of global finance and politics have been circulating and influencing popular culture for centuries, with the spotlight often falling on the Rothschild family. Author Mike Rothschild (no relation), who has researched and written about the phenomenon in his book Jewish Space Lasers, joined David Priess to discuss the appeal of conspiracy theories overall, the genesis of the Rothschilds' wealth, legends about the family's involvement in the Battle of Waterloo and other major world events, how the expansion of Rothschild commercial interests in the 1800s spurred paranoia about the family's influence, Nazi-era movies about the Rothschilds, why the family failed to gain traction in the United States, the connections between anti-Semitism and grand conspiracy theories, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Marjorie Taylor Greene's "Jewish space lasers" comments, and more.
Works mentioned in this episode:
The book The Storm Is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild
The book Jewish Space Lasers by Mike Rothschild
The movie Eyes Wide Shut
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