Jesse Robertson is a writer and doctoral student in history at Harvard University.

jessejames [dot] robertson [at] gmail [dot] com 

Essays and Reviews:

“Call of Duty: Pentagon Ops.” The Nation. October 24, 2024.

“Give Us This Doomsday: Climate conspiracies anticipated both right-wing denialism and the new end times.” The Baffler. July 9, 2024.

“Richard Hofstadter’s ‘The Paranoid Style’ Can’t Help Us Now.” Jacobin. July 19, 2023.

“A Complicated System of Traps: On Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism.” Cleveland Review of Books. June 6, 2023

“Close Encounters: The U.S. government’s long history of stoking UFO conspiracies.” The Baffler. February 23, 2023.

“The Truth Was Out There: On the Legacy of Art Bell.” Los Angeles Review of Books. November 22, 2022.

“Elite Escape: On Raymond B. Craib’s Adventure Capitalism.” Cleveland Review of Books. November 15, 2022.

“To Govern the Globe.” CounterPunch. April 29, 2022.

“White Malice and the Racist Plunder of U.S. Empire.” The Activist History Review. March 7, 2022.

Research:

“The Closed West: Rajneeshpuram and the Failure of Utopia in Antelope, Oregon.” Utopian Studies 32, no. 3 (2021).