Mind Viruses: America's Irrational Obsessions

America's decline from Cold War victor to “a house divided against itself” is not the result of external threats, but of irrational beliefs that spread like contagions, sickening “We the People” while enriching special interests that profit from fear and division.

In 1957, the Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, warned about “subversive minorities” in the West who are animated by “chimerical wish fantasies” that may rapidly spread and develop into “psychic epidemics.”

In 1984, the KGB defector, ...