Before There Was Internet Paranoia, There Was Lyndon LaRouche

He was considered a wacko and denied access to a broad audience. Today, anyone can spread wild ideas online.

 How ‘The Conversation’ Captured the Essence of Paranoia

Francis Ford Coppola’s classic suspense is an aural fixation on the concept of surveillance.

 The Surreal World: TV Delves Into Paranoia, Anxiety and Misinformation

‘Homecoming,’ starring Julia Roberts, is one of several new dramas exploring trauma and mental health; ‘there is something about our relationship with the world around us that seems frayed’

Virtual Reality Therapy Could Help Severe Paranoia

Facing your persecutory delusions through a headset.

Filmnoia, or How Fear Permeated Cinema

How cinematic paranoia has changed through decades of filmmaking—while staying the same.

How To Let Go Of Your (Irrational) Workplace Paranoia Once And For All

If you’re generally worrisome or anxious, your paranoia is likely to be even worse. Low self-esteem is another culprit, making it hard for you to accept the pleasant nature of your current workplace at face value.

If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy

As government agencies and tech companies develop more and more intrusive means of watching and influencing people, how can we live free lives?

In Defense of Paranoia

It’s better to be generally suspicious of powerful institutions that claim to speak for you and act upon you than to be overly gullible—even when that suspicion is sometimes (sadly) accompanied by a belief in evil lizards, the New World Order, or the...

Paranoia Rises When We Feel Politically Powerless

When we stop trusting the government, we start believing in conspiracies.

Privacy Paranoia: Is Your Smartphone Spying On You?

Yes, smart devices transmit information to computers that emit pre-programmed feedback in response. But no, there is no “they” there, no eyes watching us, no surveillance or monitoring--there is no Manchuria.

Study About Paranoid People Reveals That Paranoid People Are Right To Be Paranoid

Yippee. Another study about how your private insecurities are to blame for troubled work relationships and probably everything else that’s going wrong in your life. Researchers from the London Business School have determined that self-conscious, paranoid people are more likely to be gossiped about behind their backs, because they’re so insanely self-conscious and paranoid.

The insane history of how American paranoia ruined and censored comic books

One of the most hurtful things you can say to a comic book reader is that comic books are for kids. It's a chilling insult that the stuff they read — the stuff they love — never advanced beyond its funny-page beginnings. But it's also — often unknown to comics fans — a blunt reminder of one of the worst things to ever happen to comic books. Some 60 years ago, during the era of McCarthyism, comic books became a threat, causing a panic that culminated in a Senate hearing in 1954. This, of course, isn't to say that McCarthyism and the comic book panic were comparable in their human toll. But they share the same symptoms of American fear and a harsh, reactive response to it.

The Rise of the Paranoid Citizen

It is far easier to identify the challenge that conspiratorial thinking presents to our democracies than to know how to respond to it. Is it better to fight conspiracy theories or to ignore them? Is it better to shout loudly or to laugh uproariously when confronted with them? And is it not time to establish Conspiracy Theorists Anonymous as a way to deal with our addiction?