{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/af0e16de-9e4b-419b-b090-e1fe8c56f241/a02829d5-cade-45fa-b748-1a27adbf9cfb?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"How to be modern: conspiracy theory, free will and the avant-garde","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba0ef81a8cbec7663cf149/61ba0f46db9996001aebdd56.png?height=200","description":"<p>Jill Lepore traces the history of conspiracy theories and the conditions that allow them to thrive; Tim Crane talks us through whether we have free will or not, and why it is still a problem; Michael Caines looks at non-traditional approaches to criticism</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Books</strong></p><p>CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THEM, edited by&nbsp;Joseph E. Uscinski&nbsp;</p><p>CONSPIRACIES OF CONSPIRACIES: How delusions have overrun America, by&nbsp;Thomas Milan Konda&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>THE STIGMATIZATION OF CONSPIRACY THEORY SINCE THE 1950s:&nbsp;&nbsp;‘A plot to make us look foolish’, by&nbsp;Katharina Thalmann</p><p>THE AMERICAN CONSPIRACIES AND COVER-UPS: JFK, 9/11, the Fed, rigged elections, suppressed cancer cures, and the greatest conspiracies of our time, by&nbsp;Douglas Cirignano&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>REPUBLIC OF LIES: American conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to power, by Anna Merlan&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING:The new conspiracism and the assault on democracy, by&nbsp;Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>HARVESTER OF HEARTS: Motherhood under the sign of Frankenstein,&nbsp;by Rachel Feder&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>THE HUNDREDS, by&nbsp;Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>TUNNEL VISION, by&nbsp;Kevin Breathnach&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>ON THE LITERARY MEANS OF REPRESENTING THE POWERFUL AS POWERLESS, by Steven Zultanski&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The Limits of Free Will: Selected essays by Paul Russell&nbsp;</p><p>Aspects of Agency: Decisions, abilities, explanations, and free will by Alfred R. Mele&nbsp;</p><p>Self-Determination: The ethics of action – Volume One by Thomas Pink</p>","author_name":"The TLS"}