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Quinn Slobodian is Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College. His most recent book is Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.
Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.
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