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{{Short description|American writer}}
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'''Jesse Walker''' (born September 4, 1970) is books editor of ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' magazine.<ref name=":0">
==Views==
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===Foreign policy===
Walker was critical of the [[War on Terror]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reason.com/archives/2002/09/11/were-not-winning-the-war-on-te|title=We're Not Winning the War on Terrorism|date=11 September 2002}}</ref> and opposed the [[Patriot Act]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reason.com/archives/2003/02/10/terrorism-security-and-slipper|title=Terrorism, Security, and Slippery Slopes|date=10 February 2003}}</ref> He has stated that it is a myth that the U.S. pursued an "[[isolationist]]" foreign policy between [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reason.com/blog/2017/04/05/the-myth-of-isolationism|title = The Myth of Isolationism|date = 5 April 2017}}</ref>
=== Conspiracy Theories ===
He has identified five kinds of conspiracy theories:
* The "Enemy Outside" refers to theories based on figures alleged to be scheming against a community from without.
* The "Enemy Within" finds the conspirators lurking inside the nation, indistinguishable from ordinary citizens.
* The "Enemy Above" involves powerful people manipulating events for their own gain.
* The "Enemy Below" features the lower classes working to overturn the social order.
* The "Benevolent Conspiracies" are angelic forces that work behind the scenes to improve the world and help people.<ref>Jesse Walker, ''The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory'' (2013) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062135554 excerpt and text search]</ref>
==Selected bibliography==
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://jessewalker.blogspot.com/ ''Perpetual Three-Dot Column'']
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* [http://archives.nodepression.com/author/jesse-walker/ ''No Depression'' archive]
* [https://www.npr.org/2013/09/07/219718597/suspicious-in-united-states-of-paranoia-its-not-just-you NPR Interview, "Suspicious? In 'United States Of Paranoia,' It's Not Just You"]
* [https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/02/the-history-of-american-conspiracy-theories-holds-some-lessons-for-fake-news-debunkers-says-jessie-walker/ Nieman Lab Interview, "The history of American conspiracy theories holds some lessons for fake news debunkers, says Jesse Walker"]
* [https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gw79k/americas-not-so-secret-paranoid-underbelly Vice Interview, "America’s Not-So-Secret Paranoid Underbelly"]
* [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/americans-are-better-russians-conspiring-hurt-american-democracy/573862/ The Atlantic, "How Russian Trolls Imitate American Political Dysfunction"]
* [https://newrepublic.com/article/140279/presidents-phantoms-trump-conspiracy-theorist-chief The New Republic, "All the President’s Phantoms"]
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