The Deep State

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American Exceptionalism prevents serious discussion of a national history that is not all kept promises. Coupled with the intense pressures of American Exceptionalism is joined a phrase now pejorative in its frequent use: "conspiracy theorist." Anyone daring enough to question the received history of the United States during, and after, the Cold War, is invariably stigmatized and then dismissed from polite conversation by being attached to the dreaded accusation of being a "conspiracy theorist." The course begins with American Exceptionalism and conspiracy theories as concepts to be unpacked before seeing where those concepts lead by following paths into America's post-Second World War past.