Volume 29, Numbers 1-2

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The “paranoid style in American politics,” as Richard Hofstader famously described the Cold War scenario of the 1960s, is one in which threats, hostilities, and treacheries are seen as directed not toward an individual so much as “against a nation, a culture, a way of life.” Today, as we witness a resurgence of xenophobia, nationalism, and fascism, aggressive masculinity, mistrust of “elites,” and a distrust of news, information, and facts, we face a more contemporary paranoid style. Taking both paranoia and style seriously, what cultural, theoretical, and political formations can be seen to express, resist, or otherwise configure the paranoid style of the 21st century?

Focus Editors: Frida Beckman and Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Contents

Frida Beckman and Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Paranoid Politics

Michael Butter

Bad History, Useless Prophecy

Sophia A. McClennen

Be Really Afraid

Timothy Melley

The Melodramatic Mode

Peter Hitchcock

On the Politics of Paranoid Style

Clare Birchall

The Paranoid Style for Sale

Henry A. Giroux

The Plague of Inequality

Kenneth J. Saltman

Disinterested Objectivity

Jeffrey R. Di Leo

The Paranoid Imperative

Paul Allen Miller

Tyranny, Fear, and Parrhesia

Peter Knight

Conspiracy, Complicity, Critique

Robin Truth Goodman

What is the Matter with Politics?

Frida Beckman

Paranoid Masculinity

Luke Forrester Johnson

Racial Reverb

Nicole Simek

The Politics of Reparation

Zahi Zalloua

Palestinian Paranoia