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2025's Conspiracies and Theories

The Wall Street Journal

December 24, 2025

Specious ones to the left, weird ones to the right—all arise from motivated reasoning.

- By Barton Swaim

I’ve never liked the term “conspiracy theory.” In popular usage, it assumes the thing signified must be false, whereas people do conspire, and it is reasonable to devise theories about their schemes.

This story is from the December 24, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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