Jesse Walker

Jesse Walker (born September 4, 1970 ) is the editor of Reason magazine . The University of Michigan graduate is the author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (HarperCollins, 2013) and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (NYU Press, 2001) and maintains the blog The Perpetual Three -Dot Column . He is the author of articles in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , The Washington Post , The Atlantic , Salon , The New Republic , LA Times , LA Weekly , Chronicles , and No Depression .

Positions

Walker takes a firm libertarian line and has cast a protest vote for the Libertarian Party candidate in almost every presidential election to date .

Walker criticized the War on Terror and rejected the Patriot Act . He called it a myth that the US had an " isolationist " foreign policy between the world wars .

Walker distinguishes five types of conspiracy theories .

Enemy Outside refers to theories in which a society is attacked from outside.
Enemy Within: Here the conspirators find themselves in the interior of the country and can hardly be distinguished from ordinary people.
Enemy Above : Here the conspirator stands above the mass of the population. He belongs to powerful members of the elite who manipulate events to their advantage.
Enemy Below : Here the lower classes are viewed as a threat to the social order.
Benevolent Conspiracies : This is how Walker describes the forces that, according to the "benevolent conspirators", are supposed to work to make the world better and better and to help people.

Every Man a Sultan: Indigenous Responses to the Somalia Crisis. In: Telos 103 Spring 1995. New York: Telos Press.

personal data
SURNAME	Walker, Jesse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American editor of Reason magazine
DATE OF BIRTH	4th September 1970