Under the Eye of Power
How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
Colin Dickey
Viking 2023
Hb, 368pp, £23.74, ISBN 9780593299456
In Under the Eye of Power Colin Dickey argues that QAnon is not an outlier, rather it is part of a long established Nativist narrative which runs through American history.
Harking back to the writings of Karl Popper, Dickey perceives conspiracy theories as “a secularised version of religion” and contends they must be resisted if a free and fair democratic system is to prevail.
Even the Founding Fathers do
