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Calling out conspiracy theorism is an undoubtedly necessary yet rather facile gesture. The concept of a conspiracy theory is “a loaded, convenient, catch-all term,” writes Belgian researcher and scholar of rhetoric Loïc Nicolas in a piece for Diogène. The conspiracy theorist is always the Other, never ourselves. Nicholas invites us to “combat the reassuring sentiment of a difference between them, the ‘believers’ [. . .] and us—who like to think ourselves immune.” Conspiracy theorism is a way of “responding to the vagaries and torments of existence [. . .] finding sense willy-nilly when sense is lacking.” However “disturbing” they may be, conspiracy theories present “evidence [that] should rightly spur us to question our ambiguous relationship towards uncertainty, doubt, discourse, rationality and the power of words.” To bring some clarity to the subject, Nicolas addresses three overarching myths that have propped up the history of conspiracy theorism, targeting Jesuits, Jews, and Freemasons respectively. He explores each in turn from his own unique perspective: their relationship to rhetoric. One thing all three have in common is their vilification of rhetorical prowess, a skill with the power of “corrupting people’s minds.” This indictment resonated even in the upper echelons of society. Beginning with the Jesuits, an order dissolved in 1773 then refounded in 1814, Nicolas describes a lecture given by Edgar Quinet at the Collège de France in 1843. “Never has so much reason been brought to bear to conspire against reason,” declared the eminent historian, whom Girardet (1986) quotes as describing the Jesuit as the epitome of “the vagabond, [the] nomad who prowls around contented households.” What is more, he is out to “stifle knowledge” and “constrain the progress of science.” Moving on to anti-Jewish conspiracies, Nicolas tells the story of the famous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forgery created by the Russian secret service for the eyes of Tsar Nicolas II. The so-called “elders” were alleged to be plotting to “control public opinion” by voicing “so many perplexing and contradictory opinions on all sides that uninitiated goyim become lost in a labyrinth.” Finally, in relation to Freemasons, the author refers to the film Occult Forces, released in 1943, which echoes the words of Humanum Genus, the 1884 encyclical penned by Pope Leo XIII. Here we read that the Freemasons are “a deceitful and crafty enemy, who, gratifying the ears of people and of princes, has ensnared them by smooth speeches and by adulation.” Nicolas concludes that conspiracy theorists “desire the triumph of their absolutely purified and authentic language [. . .] without rhetoric, without imperfections, with no possible room for doubt.”