As we’ve seen this past week, presidential paranoia has not only gone mainstream in terms of the public, it’s now found a home in the mainstream media. Though it was limited at first to the ...

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds,” wrote historian Richard Hofstadter in Harper’s Magazine in November 1964, referring to Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential ...

with Trumpism presented as the latest manifestation of the American Paranoid Style. Running alongside that, though, is an equally potent tradition of false accusations of paranoia: of using ...