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This, rather than any ideological conspiracy, may explain why Monicagate never sank Clinton's presidency as his adversaries hoped it would.
Some commentators have said that Mr. Whitney's article is little more than innuendo, revealing more about the money problems of small magazines than about any grand ideological conspiracy.
Like Brown's The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol, Eco's sixth novel, The Prague Cemetery, snakes along an underground trail that twists through the enlightened heresies and bigoted gospels respectively propagated by Freemasons and Illuminati, Jesuits and Jew-baiters, before hinting at an ideological conspiracy that underlines the deceits of contemporary politics.
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You don't need ideological conspiracies or grand cultural tectonic shifts.
I hate to say this of other feminists, but aspects of their feminism – the anti-intellectualism, emphasis on innate knowledge, fetishisation of tiny ideological differences, heresy hunting, conspiracy theories, rhetorical use of images of disgust, talk of stabs in the back and romantic apocalypticism – smack less of feminism than of a cult.
Hanging out with a right-wing talk radio host, he manages to dredge up some sympathy for the man while exposing both the emptiness of the host's life and the coldly Pavlovian business models (rather than conspiracies or ideological passions) behind the preponderance of such shows.
Such circulated tales and anecdotes, the positive version of conspiracy theories, underpin the ideological tapestry of a public's acceptance of authoritarian rule.
What was interesting about this conspiracy was its lack of ideological content.
Perhaps the sheer nuttiness of Trump's conspiracy-driven message will cause the ideological extremes of the left and right to rediscover a political center: a space where common values can be explored for practical compromise.
Violence in American politics tends to bubble up from a world that's far stranger than any Glenn Beck monologue — a murky landscape where worldviews get cobbled together from a host of baroque conspiracy theories, and where the line between ideological extremism and mental illness gets blurry fast.
Believing in a Smolensk conspiracy has become a quick litmus test for ideological conformity in right-wing Polish politics.Michal Szudrzynski, a columnist with the newspaper Rzeczpospolita, suggests that the situation over the local elections is becoming similar to that around the Smolensk disaster.
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