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Today's conspiracism stems mainly from the instability of the late 1960s and early '70s--a period of both uncontrolled violence (assassinations, urban riots, political protests turned bloody) and anti-government ideology (the left challenged laws regulating speech, sex, and drug use; the right fought busing, the Warren court, and the welfare state).
This fuels my theory that the Internet is becoming to the late '90s what crack was to the late '80s--a catchall explanation for everything that goes wrong in a particular sector.
If England became the people of a book and that book was the Bible, then that Bible was for the most part Tyndale's--a claim argued persuasively and passionately by David Daniell in William Tyndale: A Biography , published in the fall of 1994, the quincentenary of the translator's birth.
The basic reason for these, um, tensions is that many "principles" of modern conservatives were developed under political conditions that prevailed in the 1980s--a Republican president, a Democratic Congress, and a liberal federal bench.
But they could also describe Great Britain in the 1920s--a point brought home to me by my vacation reading: the second volume of Robert Skidelsky's biography of John Maynard Keynes, which covers the crucial period from 1920 to 1937.