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How Conspiracy Theories and Secret Society Fears Have Shaped American History - Mo News Interview

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

From the Salem Witch Trials to Qanon, it turns out that conspiracy theories are “as American as apple pie.” We dive into why we believe them, and how they have impacted American history and democracy in a conversation with author and cultural historian Colin Dickey.  His latest book, “Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shape American Democracy,” provides some fascinating historical perspective into how fears of immigrants, other religions, and secret societies have impacted the country’s history over the last few centuries.  Mark Twain once said that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes,” and we learn that from this unique look at the American story.  —- Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Website: www.mo.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Daily Newsletter: https://www.mo.news/newsletter Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Moan News podcast. I'm Oshu Manunu. We have a special

0:08.4

edition today. It is a fascinating interview with this author out with a new book, Under

0:14.5

the Eye of Power, How Secrets Societies of Shaped American Democracy, Colin Dickie's

0:19.7

an author, a cultural historian who looks at everything from America's obsession with

0:24.7

ghosts to UFOs. In this case, he goes back 400 years on conspiracy theories and secret

0:30.9

societies. It's a fascinating look, an interesting unique look at American history going back

0:36.9

to the Salem Witch Trials. But really what he gets at is that there's been no part of

0:41.6

American history where we haven't believed in some sort of larger conspiracy that includes

0:46.5

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, a fear of immigrants, whether they were Catholic,

0:52.2

Chinese, Italian, Irish, Jewish, and of course through today to immigrants coming in from

0:57.6

Latin America. I think you will find this conversation fascinating eye opening. If you're

1:03.8

a lover of American history, you like to get at what makes us tick and why things are the

1:09.2

way they are. Definitely take a listen today to this conversation. Before we get started

1:13.6

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