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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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