Non Serviam Podcast #38 - Paranoia Politics with Jesse Walker
Channel: Non Serviam Media
Date: 2022-06-05

For Lucy’s second episode as host of the Non Serviam Podcast, she sat down with author and books editor at Reason, Jesse Walker. Join us for a fun discussion over American Politics, right-wing politics, oath keepers, conspiracy theories, and a good bit of American-libertarian reminiscing and inside baseball. If you liked this episode be sure to check out Jesse’s book; The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. A great read if you are interested in the cultural history of conspiracy theories in America.

“Jesse Walker is books editor of Reason. He has written on topics ranging from pirate radio to copyright law to political paranoia, and he is author of the books Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (New York University Press, 2001) and The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (HarperCollins, 2013).
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Walker's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Politico, Time, The Week, CNN.com, Slate, New York, The New Inquiry, The New Republic, The National Post, National Review, No Depression, Boing Boing, io9, Radio World, Telos, Z, the Journal of American Studies, and many other publications.
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Walker is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he received a degree in history. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two daughters.” 
- Reason Bio https://reason.com/people/jesse-walker/

Lucy is an accomplished writer and a self-described market-anarchist, feminist, and history nerd. Lucy is a long-time friend of the collective, a Contributing Editor at AntiWar.com, and you may also know Lucy from her writings at FEE, Vice, Reason, or her blogs; https://thestagblog.com/, https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/, https://original.antiwar.com/author/lucy/, and https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/lucy-steigerwald 

You can find Lucy online @LucyStag
Follow Jesse Walker at @NotJesseWalker

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00:00:16 Introduction
00:01:45  The Oath Keepers
00:09:05 Paranoia
00:16:04 Conspiracy Categorization 
00:27:06 Favorite Conspiracy Theories
00:33:06 Stevie Wonder Story
00:40:45 Real Conspiracies
00:47:41 The Mao Nixon Summit
00:58:57 The Karl Hess Moment
01:01:10 The Cappuccino Question
01:04:12 Elon Musk's Twitter
01:13:59 The Surveillance State
01:18:39 Political Worries
01:31:03 Biden and War
01:36:21 Reason's Trajectory
01:43:15 Ron Paul
01:47:13 Rothbard and Dukakis
01:49:27 Outro