Darwinism and 9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The Parallels

David Berlinski dismisses the bulk of professional scholars in the West as "a native conspiracy class. They'll believe anything. And once they believe something the conspiracy is held very tenaciously." He's poking fun and exaggerating. Yet undeniably there's a paranoiac inclination among many academics.

When I was in college, for example, the fashionable imaginative construct held that society was in the grip of a shadowy white male conspiracy, the Patriarchy. It was a bit like...