Episode 404 - should we do an "error: podcast not found" gag? Probably not worth the effort - not when the actual episode is doing double duty as a Conspiracy Theatre Masterpiece Theater (sort of) and a Back to the Conspiracy (sort of). Yes, we're looking at Richard Hofstadter's essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" from 1965 - one of the works that kicked off the philosophical literature a few decades later. We start, as you'd imagine, with a sketch based on the 1995 horror film "The Mangler".

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