Jesse Walker

Jesse Walker (born September 4, 1970) is books editor of Reason magazine.[1] The University of Michigan alumnus has written the books The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (HarperCollins, 2013) and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (NYU Press, 2001), and he maintains a blog called The Perpetual Three-Dot Column. His articles have appeared in a number of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Salon, The New Republic, Politico, L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Chronicles, Boing Boing, No Depression, and the Journal of American Studies. He has also worked as a DJ, a dishwasher, and a miscellaneous office grunt, and was once hired to help move a clandestine dog farm.[1] He lives in Baltimore with his wife and their two daughters. [1][2]

This article is about the writer. For the Methodist minister, see Jesse Walker (Methodist). For the meteorologist, see WTWO. For the musician, see Flobots.
Not to be confused with Jessie Walker.

Views

Walker's writings display a definite libertarian bent, and he has cast a protest vote for the Libertarian Party's nominee in every presidential election of his adult lifetime except one, though "more often than not, I think they've put up a terrible candidate."[3]

Foreign policy

Walker was critical of the War on Terror[4] and opposed the Patriot Act.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

Selected bibliography
  • "Every Man a Sultan: Indigenous Responses to the Somalia Crisis". Telos 103 (Spring 1995). New York: Telos Press.

References
  1. Reason Magazine on-line staff biography, retrieved November 24, 2014
  2. "About Jesse Walker". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  3. Walker, Jesse and Chris Hayes (2012-10-03) MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Reason’s Jesse Walker on What Tonight’s Debate Really Needs Archived 2012-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, New York
  4. https://reason.com/archives/2002/09/11/were-not-winning-the-war-on-te
  5. https://reason.com/archives/2003/02/10/terrorism-security-and-slipper
  6. https://reason.com/blog/2017/04/05/the-myth-of-isolationism
  7. Jesse Walker, The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (2013) excerpt and text search


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